US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 29 for "Content analysis to enhance search" (District Of Columbia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,482, issued on July 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Content analysis to enhance search" was invented by George Thomas Des Jardins (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for improving speech recognition accuracy in media content searches are described. An advertisement for a media content item is analyzed to identify keywords that may describe the media content item. The identified keywords are associated with the media content item for use during a voice search to locate the media content item. A user may speak the one or more of the keywords as a search input and be pro...