US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Oct. 6 for "Tune media player for broadcast and broadband services" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,879, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tune media player for broadcast and broadband services" was invented by Graham A Clift (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and a method for tuning of media player to broadcast and broadband services. The electronic device receives media content for playback. The electronic device determines that the media content includes OTA media content and OTT media content. The electronic device compares a first bit rate of the OTA media content with a second bit rate of the OTT media content. The electronic device sets a reported bit rate of the medi...