US Patent Issued to Roku on Feb. 3 for "Dynamic content filling system for avoidance of slate playback during live streams" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,943, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic content filling system for avoidance of slate playback during live streams" was invented by Ihsan Mert Ozcelik (London), James Eberhard Lanikai Palmer (San Jose, Calif.) and Nguyen Pham Thanh Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for avoiding slate playback during live streams through dynamic content filling. An example embodiment operates by receiving, from an origin server, a manifest associated with live strea...