US Patent Issued to DISH Network on May 13 for "Interactive media events" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,958, issued on May 13, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Interactive media events" was invented by Neil Marten (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Interactive Media Event (IME) system includes a sync server, a first user device, and a second user device, each device is coupled to the server. The server executes computer instructions instantiating a content segment engine which outputs a Party matter to the second user device and instantiates an IME engine which receives, from the second user device, a later reaction to the Party matter. The IME engine synchronizes the later reaction with the Party m...