ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,163, issued on July 29, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"In-transport multi-channel media delivery" was invented by Joshua G. Slater (Rancho Mission, Calif.), Joshua J. Righetti (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Nirmalkumar Velayudhan (San Marcos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide efficient delivery of multiple media channels to in-transport terminals, for example, to reduce channel zapping delay in a bandwidth efficient manner. For example, an in-transport media (ITM) server can distribute multiple channel offerings to ITM clients in a transport craft. Meanwhile, the ITM server can monitor which channel ...