ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,481, issued on July 29, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for arranging contextually related media assets" was invented by Akitaka Nishimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically arranging media assets that are contextually related to a requested media asset for access prior to a start time of the requested media asset. In some embodiments, user input circuitry may receive a user request to access a media asset. Control circuitry may identify, by consulting a database, a first set of media assets that share a context with the requested ...