ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,568, issued on May 13, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for efficient content delivery" was invented by Christopher J. Demange (San Diego) and Shameem Hashmi (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for improved device authentication and presentation of media content to passengers aboard a transportation apparatus are disclosed. In some aspects, authentication of a device may be simplified based on previous associations made between the device, a user, and travel on a transportation apparatus within a particular time period. In some aspects, passenger selected media cont...