US Patent Issued to ROKU on July 28 for "Playing media contents based on metadata indicating content categories" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,949, issued on July 28, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Playing media contents based on metadata indicating content categories" was invented by Bollapragada Manohar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User information can be determined based on a user input received from a user, a user profile about the user, and a profile of a user community including the user. Metadata associated with a media content can indicate a first portion of the media content to be of a first content category, and a second portion of the media content to be of a second content category different from the first content category. Th...