US Patent Issued to Sling TV on Feb. 10 for "Automated program promotion detection in a video streaming system" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,825, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sling TV LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Automated program promotion detection in a video streaming system" was invented by Robert Drew Major (Orem, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and processes are provided to facilitate video streaming. The various embodiments facilitate the detection of program promotions in a video stream, where program promotions include commercial content that advertises future programs. In general, the embodiments facilitate the detection of program promotions in a video stream through the use of automated process monitors the video stream and determines th...