US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 7 for "Content-related actions based on context" (California, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,149, issued on July 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Content-related actions based on context" was invented by Allen Wang (Glendale, Calif.), Chongshu Qian (Seattle), Srikanth Nori (Arlington, Mass.), Joshua Maxwell Rutheiser (Seattle), Lei Raymond Lu (Arcadia, Calif.), Jack Andrew Tomlinson (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Matthew Brian Urtnowski (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for maintaining contextual data to support content-related actions. In an example, a system stories second content at a source. The source is associated with first content. The system sends, to a device,...