ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,797, issued on July 21, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for generating a playlist of content items and content item segments" was invented by Padmassri Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India), Daina Emmanuel (Bangalore, India) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for providing content identified in a playlist associated with a profile. A content consumption system monitors a profile and determines a segment of a content item that is of interest to the profile. The segment of the content item is added to a playlist, which can then be looped."
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