ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,261, issued on March 3, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"User cold start media recommendation generation and external provider content play" was invented by Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.) and Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media content recommendations and user profile display recommendations, including user names and icons of users associated with the subscription, may be provided, for example, upon cold start of a user subscription. A content provider may request a history of user interactions and profile information from a second content provider and then determine that the co...