ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,930, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (Bengaluru, India).
"Influencer watch party" was invented by Melvin P. Perinchery (Bangalore, India) and Preetham Kumar (Belthangady, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating a watch party are provided. In one example, a method includes: initiating a watch party session for a host user using, presenting content selected by the host user on a first user device during the watch party session, initiating a chat session concurrent with the watch party session, receiving a participation request by a guest user sent from a se...