ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,993, issued on April 21, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).
"Local alerts on non-local channels" was invented by Eric Pleiman (Centennial, Colo.) and Joseph Tomko (Castle Rock, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and processes for providing local alerts to users via non-local channels are described. A process may include receiving, by a content distributor system, an alert message. The alert message includes a first alert condition and a second alert condition. The first alert condition and the second alert condition are identified in the alert message, and an alert notice is generated, based on t...