US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on March 4 for "System and method for delivering missed portions of media assets to interested viewers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,893, issued on March 4, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for delivering missed portions of media assets to interested viewers" was invented by John Blake (Belmont, Calif.), Milan Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rowena Young (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Jean Michel Pierre Bourdon (Emerald Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for efficiently "catching-up" a user that is interested in a media asset when that user has missed a portion of the media asset while consuming the media asset together with other people. The system may detect that multiple people ar...