US Patent Issued to GRACENOTE on July 15 for "Predictive measurement of end-user activities at specified times" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,364, issued on July 15, was assigned to GRACENOTE INC. (New York).

"Predictive measurement of end-user activities at specified times" was invented by Melissa Kazemi Rad (Elmsford, N.Y.), Tal Kedar (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Dominic Bryan Edwards (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining if end-users are expected to be receiving transmissions from a multimedia network at a particular time. Data including end-user type, a multimedia network, a particular time slot of the repeating cycles, and a network reach descriptor may be received. End-users may be identified by end-user type. For each end-user, a...