US Patent Issued to DISH Network on July 1 for "Methods and systems for providing searchable media content and for searching within media content" (Wyoming Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,369, issued on July 1, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Methods and systems for providing searchable media content and for searching within media content" was invented by Kevin Yao (Cheyenne, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a text file related to media content. The media content comprises a first segment and a second segment. A first portion of the text file includes a first time of the first segment and represents audio in the first segment or video in the first segment. A second portion of the text file includes a second time of the second segment and represents audio in the seco...