US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on May 27 for "Systems and methods for deducing user information from input device behavior" (California, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,979, issued on May 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for deducing user information from input device behavior" was invented by Ray Campbell (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Walter R. Klappert (North Hollywood, Calif.) and Paul George Milazzo (Hockessin, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User selections entered in the media application or any user input device behavior with user devices may be recorded as clickstream data. The clickstream data may be used to deduce information about the user or a media item being consumed. A user may be profiled based on his or her input device behavior using a ...