US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for selectively and automatically enabling and disabling features of a chat application" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,128, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for selectively and automatically enabling and disabling features of a chat application" was invented by Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah (Karnataka, India), Vikram Makam Gupta (Karnataka, India) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each user in a group watch session is identified, as is a media asset being consumed by the users. The media asset comprises a plurality of segments, and an availability level of each user is determined for each segment of the media asset. If the availability level of the user for ...