ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,478, issued on April 29, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Adaptive on-board media channel interface" was invented by Christopher J. Demange (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Ronald L. Seager (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for adaptive control of media channel interfaces for delivery of media content over communications systems to transport craft passengers. Embodiments monitor viewership of various media channel offerings provided to transport craft passengers to compute aggregated viewership scores. Based on the scores, respective prominence parameters associated with the various media ...