US Patent Issued to Sling TV on May 6 for "Systems and methods for unifying local channels with over-the-top services" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,448, issued on May 6, was assigned to Sling TV LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for unifying local channels with over-the-top services" was invented by Vikal Kumar Jain (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for unifying local channels with Over-the-Top (OTT) services (e.g., Internet-streaming media services). In one example aspect, a location is determined. Based on the determined location, a list of local channels available for broadcast in the geographic area is retrieved. The list of local channels is then compared to a list of channels offer...