ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,473, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to WIDEORBIT LLC (San Francisco).
"Augmentation of metadata in broadcast streams" was invented by William E. Offeman (Redmond, Wash.), Trevan Grant Zosel (Bothell, Wash.) and Pamela Morris (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and articles for augmenting slot metadata for broadcast streams and replacement of content in addressable streams based on the metadata are described herein. The systems disclosed herein are able to augment slots associated with content provided by broadcast streams to include metadata. The augmented slots are used to generate a log, that c...