US Patent Issued to DISH Network on May 20 for "Forced update of meta-programming data using digital video broadcast service information" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,455, issued on May 20, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Forced update of meta-programming data using digital video broadcast service information" was invented by Alan Terry Pattison (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Danny J. Minnick (Castle Rock, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments detect updates to digital video broadcast (DVB) service information (SI), and forcing off-schedule updates to local meta-programming data (MPD) of a customer premises appliance in response to the update, where appropriate. For example, embodiments detect an SI update for at least one DVB content service being provided via a DVB net...