MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517089442 A) filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, on Sept. 19, for 'a device, system, computer program and method of handling service switching.'
Inventor(s) include Loov, Gustaf; Alm, Robert; Strand, Henrik; and Moore, Nigel.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a method of handling service switching. The method comprises: receiving service content based on a request of a first service; monitoring programme metadata associated with the first service; detecting overrun of the programme event based on the programme metadata; and overriding service switching scheduled at the original end time of the programme event to continue accessing service content of the programme event, based on schedule information extracted from the programme metadata."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 29, 2024, under International application No.PCT/GB2024/050543.
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