ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,193, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Adeia Media Solutions Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Real-time DVR programming" was invented by James M. Barton (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for real-time DVR programming employ secure instant message protocol in a DVR environment. An embodiment sends an instant message to the DVR which causes the DVR to open a new secure connection with the service provider for synchronizing data on the DVR with updated programming data from the service provider. Another embodiment uses an already established connection with an instant message server for synchronizing data on the DVR w...