US Patent Issued to Smile Media on July 14 for "Social media platform for sharing reactions to videos" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,920, issued on July 14, was assigned to Smile Media Inc. (Beverly Hills, Calif.).

"Social media platform for sharing reactions to videos" was invented by Harold R. Hildebrand (Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for granting video access. A method may include generating a plurality of contact categories for a user on a communication platform; for each respective contact in a plurality of contacts associated with the user: determining a degree of interaction between the user and the respective contact; and automatically assigning the respective contact to a correspondi...