US Patent Issued to DISH Network on June 10 for "Methods and systems for detecting interruptions while streaming media content" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,457, issued on June 10, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Methods and systems for detecting interruptions while streaming media content" was invented by Christopher Ergen (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to methods and systems for detecting interruptions while streaming media content. An interruption detection system can monitor streaming media content to detect when an interruption (e.g., commercial break, advertisement, etc.) will occur in the streaming content. The interruption detection system can query the content delivery platform to determine whether the same content ...