ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,840, issued on March 18, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).
"Metadata-based smart home automation" was invented by Pavel Novodvorskiy (Aurora, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments include initiating operation of network application logic by detecting control of a network-connected electronic device within a predetermined interval of a previous receipt of instructions related to playing media content that includes content-type metadata that identifies the media content as being a predetermined type of content; and programming an automated routine ...