US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on March 17 for "Methods of impersonation in streaming media" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,700, issued on March 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods of impersonation in streaming media" was invented by Zhiyun Li (Kenmore, Wash.), Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method comprising receiving a request to view a content item comprising a first character having a first character representation, accessing permissions regarding replacement of the first character representation, determining whether the permissions allow replacement of the first character representation, in response to the determining, generating for display an ...