US Patent Issued to iHeartMedia Management Services on Jan. 28 for "Transmission of streaming station associated with over-the-air broadcast station" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,071, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to iHeartMedia Management Services Inc. (San Antonio).

"Transmission of streaming station associated with over-the-air broadcast station" was invented by Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, from a requesting device, a broadcast station identifier associated with an over-the-air broadcast station. In response to receiving the station identifier, returning to the requesting device an address of a streaming station corresponding to the over-the-air broadcast station. A determination is made regarding whether the requesting device will insert...