US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on July 22 for "Method and apparatus for redirecting portions of content to alternate communication channels" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,916, issued on July 22, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for redirecting portions of content to alternate communication channels" was invented by Kuppappa Harijan (Bengaluru, India) and Madhusudhan Srinivasan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for displaying primary content without any overlaid secondary content, and instead transmitting the secondary content to the viewer as a message through another communication channel. For example, a news banner is removed from display on a viewer's television, and the text of the news banner is encapsulated in a messag...