ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,073, issued on March 25, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for managing available bandwidth in a household" was invented by Claire M. Wallters (Saratoga, Calif.) and Lauren Palmateer (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing available bandwidth in a household are provided. A request to access a first media asset is received. A determination is made as to whether a bandwidth currently available in the household is sufficient for enabling access to the first media asset. When the bandwidth currently available in the household is insufficient for enabling acc...