US Patent Issued to Google on March 31 for "Methods, systems, and media for providing video content suitable for audio-only playback" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,107, issued on March 31, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for providing video content suitable for audio-only playback" was invented by Justin Lewis (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Ruxandra Georgiana Davies (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for selecting content to be presented are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: receiving a request for a first video content item from a user device; receiving an indication that the user device is in a background playback mode; determining that the first video content item is not suit...