ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,394, issued on July 15, was assigned to Adeia Solutions LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and apparatus for integrating media across a wide area network" was invented by Bradley Dietrich (San Francisco), Daniel Putterman (San Francisco), Gregory Peters (San Francisco) and Richard Bullwinkle (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for distributing media includes a wide area network (WAN), a media player coupled to the WAN at a first home, and a media server coupled to the WAN at a second home for providing media. A service is coupled to the WAN for receiving a request for media from the media player and for establish...