US Patent Issued to Spotify on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for media segmentation" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,737, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Systems and methods for media segmentation" was invented by Ann Clifton (New York) and Adam Feldstein Jacobs (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and devices for media segmentation. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining audio content for a podcast and generating sentence embeddings for the audio content. The method also includes generating segment embeddings using the sentence embeddings and context information, and determining, for each segment embedding, whether the segment embedding includes a topic ...