ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,674, issued on May 5, was assigned to INTELLING MEDIA CORP. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"System and method for topological representation of commentary" was invented by Peter Robert Williams (Belmont, Calif.), Scott Lester Minneman (San Francisco) and Stephan John Fitch (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for aggregating media (and commentary on that media) into a topology. To do so, the system receives first content (and associated metadata) as well as second content (and associated metadata). The system then generates a topology based on a relationship between the first con...