ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,151, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Media client confidence score" was invented by Vijay A. Suryavanshi (San Diego), Carl R. Erhard (Reminderville, Ohio), Joshua G. Slater (Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Stuart H. Floyd (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system comprises an onboard server situated onboard a mobile platform, a remote server situated outside the mobile platform, the remote server configured to generate one or more live video channels for use by the onboard server, a virtual media client situated onboard the mobile platform, and a scoring subsystem, whe...