ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,872, issued on June 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for recommending content using progress bars" was invented by Charishma Chundi (Nellore, India) and Susanto Sen (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During playback of a content item, a media signature corresponding to a first portion of the content item is identified. A number of media signatures representing portions of a plurality of other content items may have been previously identified and stored. Each stored media signature may also include an identifier of an associated content item and a timestamp corresponding to a...