US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for shared viewing of media content" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,068, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for shared viewing of media content" was invented by Akshay Chetan Shah (Mumbai, India), Padmassri Chandrashekar (Karnataka, India) and Daina Emmanuel (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In systems and methods for enhancing group watch experiences, a first user's reaction is detected using multiple sensors, e.g., at least one camera and a microphone, and may be combined with context information to determine an action to perform at user equipment devices of other users participating in the group watch to convey the first us...