US Patent Issued to Thomson Licensing on Oct. 6 for "Enable dial for OTT virtualized applications" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,755, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Thomson Licensing (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

"Enable dial for OTT virtualized applications" was invented by Vinod Jatti (Bangalore, India), Sandeep Guddekoppa Suresh (Bangalore, India) and Mallika Subramanyam (Warrington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To allow a second screen device to discover virtualized over-the top (OTT) application, a first screen device can act as a proxy DIAL server device. The proxy DIAL server device can utilize the DIAL protocol to communicate with the second screen device and transmit requests for one or more OTT applications from the second screen device to a netw...