Sling Media Assigned Patent

Sling Media LLC, Foster City, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,586,035) developed by Eyler, David Randolph, San Francisco, CA, for a “system for controlling access to an account.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An account management server, a communication device and a service device are provided for managing access to an account. The account management server, for example, includes, but is not limited to, a storage device configured to store identifying information for each of a plurality of service devices and configured to store an account associated with each of the plurality of service devices, and a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor is configured to: receive identifying information from a communication device, identify at least one service device whose stored identifying information matches the received identifying information, and grant management access to the account associated with the identified at least one service device to the communication device.”

The patent application was filed on July 17, 2017 (15/651,993).