ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,085, issued on March 25, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).
"Media device software installation" was invented by Alan Terry Pattison (Castle Rock, Colo.), Geoffrey Kemp (Aurora, Colo.) and Ashok Soni (Aurora, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for updating software installed on a media device in connection with installation of the media device in customer premises is described. Outside the customer premises, the facility transfers a later-issued version of the software installed on the media device from a server to a portable storage device. Within the customer premises, the facility transfers the late...