ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,019, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (Atlanta).

"Generating a media segment asset" was invented by Donald Jude Loheide (Mableton, Ga.), Nishith Kumar Sinha (Mableton, Ga.), Nicolas Paul Webb (McDonough, Ga.) and Roland Noll (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for generating a live media segment asset. Manifest data and indexed metadata are inserted to a live media segment asset manifest based on an identifier in a received request. The indexed metadata is associated with a media segment from an indexed media content referenced in a first programming schedule. A live medi...