US Patent Issued to DISH Network on June 16 for "Automatically suspending or reducing portable device notifications when viewing audio/video programs" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,926, issued on June 16, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Automatically suspending or reducing portable device notifications when viewing audio/video programs" was invented by Ryan Richard Carey (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for selectively suppressing notifications on a portable device is described. The facility accesses data characterizing the condition of the portable device. The facility infers from the accessed data that that the portable device is being carried by a person who is viewing content being played by a media player device. In response to this inference, the facility determines ...