US Patent Issued to iHeartMedia Management Services on Sept. 8 for "Substituting streaming station for over-the-air broadcast" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,174, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to iHeartMedia Management Services Inc. (San Antonio).

"Substituting streaming station for over-the-air broadcast" was invented by Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving at a media broadcast system, via a first packet-switched network interface, a station identifier transmitted from a hybrid media device using a second packet-switched network interface included in the hybrid media device. The station identifier corresponds to an over-the-air media station received by an over-the-air tuner included in the hybrid media device. An address of a st...