ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,672, issued on June 3, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Adaptive on-screen guide based on channel or content transition commands" was invented by Michael James Brehm (Allen, Texas) and Benjamin Harden (Coronado, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a channel sequence for display via an abbreviated on-screen guide are disclosed herein. Channel tuning commands are entered via a user interface of a computing device. Channel tuning data, which describes channel transitions caused by the channel tuning commands, is stored in a buffer. Based on the channel tuning data, a channel fami...