US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on July 1 for "Systems and methods for displaying notifications of anticipated dynamic events on a media progress indicator" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,831, issued on July 1, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for displaying notifications of anticipated dynamic events on a media progress indicator" was invented by David D. Shoop (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking the status of an anticipated dynamic event and displaying a corresponding notification icon on a media progress indicator. A media guidance application receives, from an application (e.g., Uber), a notification (e.g., "Driver Found") during consumption of a media asset (e.g., "Fast and Furious") and determines that an expected event withou...