US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on April 29 for "System and methods for alerting a user consuming media to the progress of others consuming media" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,197, issued on April 29, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and methods for alerting a user consuming media to the progress of others consuming media" was invented by Ajit Shanware (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a first user to set up an alert that will notify the first user when the first user has caught up to a second user's progress in consuming media. These systems and methods are used to ensure that the first user is informed, while they are consuming media, that they have caught up to the progress of a second user. By providing an ...