US Patent Issued to DISH Broadcasting on July 1 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for pre-tuning a second tuner in anticipation of a channel surfing activity" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,825, issued on July 1, was assigned to DISH Broadcasting Corp. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for pre-tuning a second tuner in anticipation of a channel surfing activity" was invented by Kevin Yao (Cockeysville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two-tuner media device systems and methods are operable to pre-tune a second tuner in anticipation of a channel surfing activity. An exemplary embodiment receives a first content stream associated with a currently presented channel at a first tuner, determines an anticipated channel based upon the currently presented channel and a historical channel surfing pattern, recei...