ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,915, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sling TV LLC (Englewood, Colo.).
"Correcting ad markers in media content" was invented by Robert Drew Major (Orem, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content is received from a content origin and includes a first I frame occurring in the content at an actual start time of an ad segment. The content includes an ad marker comprising an indicated start time of an available segment, and the actual start time is within a predetermined period of the indicated start time. The ad marker is updated to set the indicated start time equal to the actual start time. The predetermined period may be within 0....