US Patent Issued to DISH Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for reducing time required for a media content event channel change" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,719, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to DISH Technologies LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for reducing time required for a media content event channel change" was invented by Gregory Greene (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of a media device are operable to perform a channel change operation. An exemplary embodiment receives a first data table from a data table server, wherein the first data table comprises first control information used to perform a channel change operation such that the media device reconfigures itself to change to a new channel from a currently presenting ...