US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on Oct. 7 for "Optimal method to signal web-based subtitles" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,130, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimal method to signal web-based subtitles" was invented by Padmassri Chandrashekar (Karnataka, India) and Reda Harb (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to providing closed caption data to a media player. More particularly, the present invention relates to implementing a referencing mechanism leveraging repetition of content to transmit less closed caption data to a client device. Improved closed captioning and subtitling methods, mechanisms, techniques and systems described herein are introduced to provide a bett...