ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,480, issued on June 10, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Crowdsourcing supplemental content" was invented by Derek Johnson (Sedalia, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for sourcing supplemental content are disclosed. Secondary devices may be used to identify content streaming on first screen devices and to generate supplemental data for the content. In this manner, users may be leveraged to create various data for a variety of content. The data may be collected and organized so that users watching content at a later time may have access to the data. Methods and systems for using ...