ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,704, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for recommending content items" was invented by Ashish Gupta (Karnataka, India), Vaibhav Gupta (Karnataka, India), Rohit Dhiman (Haridwar, India) and Senthil Kumar Karuppasamy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for recommending a content item. A search query for a content item is received. The availability of the content item from more than one source is determined. In response to determining that the content item is available from more than one source, the quality of each of the availab...