US Patent Issued to Roku on Oct. 28 for "Method and system for remotely controlling consumer electronic devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,371, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for remotely controlling consumer electronic devices" was invented by Donald F. Gordon (Morgan Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media system replaces content in a first sequence of media content. The media system presents the first sequence of media content to an end-user and generates a fingerprint of the sequence of media content. The fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the first sequence of media content and determine a reference position within the first sequence of media co...