ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,107, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Smart automatic skip mode" was invented by Charishma Chundi (Andhra Pradesh, India), Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.) and Rajendra Pandey (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for enabling a smart automatic skip mode during playback of a content item. A content item is generated for output at a first time at a computing device, and input associated with navigating the content item is received. Metadata associated with a plurality of segments of the content item is identified and, based on the input and the metadata, a segme...