ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,834, issued on June 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for establishing a voice link between users accessing media" was invented by Steve M. DiBello (West Chester, Pa.), Samir Desai (Harleysville, Pa.) and Robert Barr Thompson (Broomall, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for establishing a voice communications link between multiple users accessing a media asset are provided. A media asset is accessed using a first user device, the first user device being associated with a first user at a first location. A second user who is accessing the media asset using a second user ...