ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,478, issued on June 10, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Recommending audiovisual content items to a subscriber based on locations visited by the subscriber" was invented by Fenggen Hu (Shanghai), Libo Sheng (Shanghai) and Jianguo Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recommending audiovisual content items to a subscriber based on locations visited by the subscriber. Location information from a mobile device having GPS functionality is received. The location information includes locations the subscriber has visited with the mobile device. The various locations may be counted, ranked, and grouped. Interes...