ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,771, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for operating a group watching session" was invented by Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Tumkur District, India) and Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for operating a group watching session. Group communication is initiated for a group watching session displaying a media content item. A bandwidth available to at least one computing device participating in the group watching session is determined. A group communication mode for a segment of the media content item is...