ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,832, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for ensuring continued access to media of a playlist despite geographic content restrictions" was invented by Gorm Ward Nielsen (Cobham, Great Britain), Milan Indu Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stephanie Schaeffer (Luxembourg) and Vincent Lefevre (Florange, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for detecting information that indicates that a user will be traveling from a first geographic location to a second geographic location, and responsively accessing a playlist indicated by a profile of the...