US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on April 14 for "Closed captioning summarization" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,061, issued on April 14, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Closed captioning summarization" was invented by John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.) and Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing closed captioning summarization. Various options may be provided to summarize different portions of a media item (e.g., a last 5 minutes, the last 15 minutes, from the beginning of the show). Upon receiving a request for a summary, a closed captioning summarization service may extract a portion of closed captions of a corresponding closed caption file and generate ...