US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Dec. 9 for "Method and apparatus for identifying a single user requesting conflicting content and resolving said conflict" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,185, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for identifying a single user requesting conflicting content and resolving said conflict" was invented by David Wittke (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically determining when a single party is playing or requesting conflicting content on two different devices, and resolving the conflict accordingly. Systems automatically identify when a single user is playing back a content stream on one device, then requests another content stream on another device. If the two content streams conflict, ...