US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for triggering actions on a client media player based on live events during a live media broadcast" (California, Washington, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,234, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for triggering actions on a client media player based on live events during a live media broadcast" was invented by Allison Nicole Deal (Santa Monica, Calif.), Flavio Ribeiro Nogueira Barbosa (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Xiaomei Liu (Cupertino, Calif.), Katheryn Shi (Seattle), Wei Wei (Plano, Texas) and Christopher Newton (North Richland Hills, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented methods and systems trigger actions by a client media player in response to determining that a live event has occurred during a live media...