US Patent Issued to Sling TV on Oct. 20 for "Detecting content of interest in streaming media" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,786, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Sling TV LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Detecting content of interest in streaming media" was invented by Eric Dyoniziak (Vineyard, Utah) and Robert Drew Major (Orem, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention recognizes media content using signatures generated by network devices with limited processing power. A signature comprises a first set of frequency-amplitude pairs associated with a first piece of content. The signature is compared with stored signatures corresponding to known content. Each of the stored signatures comprises a stored set of frequency-amplitude pairs. The first p...