US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on July 22 for "Systems and methods for performing an action based on viewing positions of other users" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,924, issued on July 22, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing an action based on viewing positions of other users" was invented by Sakura Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing an action based on viewing positions of other users are provided. Viewing progress in a media asset of each of a plurality of users is retrieved. The viewing progress of each of the plurality of users is compared to identify a maximum viewing progress that is common to each of the plurality of users. A request from a user to access the media asset is received. A current...