US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Aug. 4 for "Methods and systems for alerting users regarding availability of unconsumed content" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,933, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for alerting users regarding availability of unconsumed content" was invented by Sakura Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for a media guidance application that limits the incentive for authorized users to share content with unauthorized users, while still allowing users to access content virtually anywhere. Specifically, the media guidance application allows an authorized user to receive only a portion of a media asset that he or she is authorized to access on a different device, after a designa...