US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for episode tracking in an interactive media environment" (California, Kansas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,131, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for episode tracking in an interactive media environment" was invented by Charles Cordray (Leawood, Kan.), Todd A. Walker (Bixby, Okla.) and Samir B. Armaly (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring a user's viewing progress of media in a series are provided. The user may setup a media profile containing a list of program series to be monitored. The interactive media monitoring application may track the user's viewing progress of programs in the program series on the user equipment and...