ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,737, issued on July 29, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).
"System and methods for providing a converged advertisement insertion architecture in a content delivery network" was invented by David W. Chen (Aurora, Colo.), Timothy Whitton (Aurora, Colo.), David E. Agranoff (Golden, Colo.), Manuel Martinez (Beaverton, Ore.) and Vipul Patel (Parker, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for supporting advertisement (ad) insertion into a media stream. The device receives notification of an upcoming ad break within the media stream, determines whether the upcoming ad break contains...