ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,243, issued on May 13, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).
"System and method for multi-modal podcast summarization" was invented by Amanmeet Garg (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aneesh Vartakavi (Emeryville, Calif.) and Joshua Ernest Morris (Nashville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes receiving podcast content, generating a transcript of at least a portion of the podcast content, and parsing the podcast content to (i) identify audio segments within the podcast content, (ii) determine classifications for the audio segments, (iii) identify audio segment offsets, and (iv) identify sentence off...