ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,846, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Provision of a lease for streaming content" was invented by Srinivas Vedula (Fremont, Calif.), Daniel P. Carter (San Jose, Calif.), Gianpaolo Fasoli (Redwood City, Calif.), Augustin J. Farrugia (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Eugene Jivotovski (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to embodiments for providing a content stream to a device from a content server based on a protocol that is established between the device and an account server. The account server can initiate a session with the device and provide the device with a lis...