ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,487, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Rewind and fast forward of content" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India) and Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing fast forwarding recommendations based on the user's consumption history are disclosed. The consumption history includes data relating to attributes that were previously rewinded and watched and those that were skipped and forwarded. It also includes scores for attributes that were present and absent in a portion that was previously rewinded or fo...