US Patent Issued to Sirius XM Radio on Nov. 11 for "Content caching services in satellite and satellite/IP content delivery systems" (Florida, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,432, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sirius XM Radio Inc. (New York).

"Content caching services in satellite and satellite/IP content delivery systems" was invented by Stuart A. Cox (Roswell, Ga.), Paul Marko (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) and Craig Wadin (Sunrise, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented to facilitate caching of programming from broadcast and/or content streaming services to a user device for local playback. In addition, metadata can be provided to guide the user in selecting, caching, or playing the cachable content. In some exemplary embodiments, a receiver or other user device can automati...