ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,563, issued on May 19, was assigned to ROKU INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Automated trailer generation" was invented by Abhishek Bambha (Burlingame, Calif.), Ronica Jethwa (Mountain View, Calif.), Rohit Mahto (San Jose, Calif.), Nam Vo (San Jose, Calif.), Fei Xiao (San Jose, Calif.) and Lian Liu (Rancho Palos Verdes, 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 aspects, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for generating trailers (previews) for multimedia content. An example aspect operates by generating an initial set of candidate...