US Patent Issued to Google on June 30 for "Determining a time point to skip to within a media item using user interaction events" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,866, issued on June 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Determining a time point to skip to within a media item using user interaction events" was invented by Dongeek Shin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a time point to skip to within a media item using user interaction events includes providing a media item to a user identifying one or more user interaction events each associated with the user skipping to a particular time point during current playback of the media item, determining a next time point intended by the user to skip to during the current playback of the medi...