Patent 11190835 was granted and assigned to Sony on November, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. Upon channel change, the existing broadcaster application for the service being tuned away from is unloaded only responsive to a determination that the new service being tuned to requires a different broadcaster app.