US Patent Issued to TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES on Oct. 28 for "Apparatus and methods for selective enforcement of secondary content viewing" (California, Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,372, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC (St. Louis).

"Apparatus and methods for selective enforcement of secondary content viewing" was invented by Peter Stern (Greenwich, Conn.), Michael L. LaJoie (Treasure Island, Fla.) and Michael Angus (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for selectively enforcing required insertion or viewing of secondary content, such as advertisements or promotions, in a content distribution network. In one embodiment, the network is a managed network (e.g., cable television, satellite, or the like), and the method includes identifying sec...