US Patent Issued to NBCUniversal Media on June 10 for "Systems and methods facilitating interactions between imposter devices and protected content systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,935, issued on June 10, was assigned to NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods facilitating interactions between imposter devices and protected content systems" was invented by Robert Glenn Deen (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Andrea Elaine Avila Weiler (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques provided herein employ a device monitoring service to provide task to content consumption devices that are steaming digital media from the streaming infrastructure. The tasks, when implemented by the content consumption devices, may reveal differences in task performance between authorized devices, which have the author...