ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,043, issued on March 18, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Query system with spoiler prevention" was invented by Ankur Anil Aher (Maharashtra, India) and Charishma Chundi (Andhra Pradesh, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a reply to a query are provided. A query about an event in a content recording during playback of the content recording is received. A type of the event based on the query is determined. A playback position in a timeline of the content recording is determined. Based on the type of the event, an event distribution table is obtained, the table comprising one ...