Sling Media Assigned Patent

Sling Media Inc., Foster City, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,045,062) developed by Rao, Padmanabha R., Palo Alto, CA, for a “networked personal video storage and delivery.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.”

The patent application was filed on November 6, 2017 (15/804,672