ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,952, issued on May 13, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).
"IPTV session management" was invented by Mats Cedervall (Harnosand, Sweden), Jan Erik Lindquist (Alvsjo, Sweden) and Andrew Mallinson (Leamington Spa, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A session management involves registering at least one IPTV application in a registration table so that the registration table includes at least a respective identifier of the IPTV applications. The IPTV applications are invokable at a set top box and can be so-called embedded applications and/or browser-based applications. An event requiring the invo...