ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,266, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"User-based content filtering" was invented by Neena Mohanachandran Sailaja (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Trent Parker (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for user-based content filtering. A type of content indicated by a user profile associated with a request for a content item may be identified. An occurrence of the type of content within the content item may be identified. Filtering da...