ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,996, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for retrieving personalized ratings of content items from a preferred service" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Serhad Doken (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided that allow a server of a first content service provider, to send a query to a server of another service provider. The query includes a user ID and list of content IDs related to media content available on the first service. In response to the query, the server of the second service retrieves p...