US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 20 for "Determining points of interest in a content item" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,666, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Determining points of interest in a content item" was invented by Galen Trevor Gattis (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Leslie Chapman (Philadelphia), Hong Kwon (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jennifer Metz (Haverford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods to identify points of interest of viewers of a content item concurrently being transmitted in a linear stream to the viewers. A point of interest may refer to a segment of the content item that caused a surge in user reactions. During a subsequent t...