US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 3 for "Audiovisual content item transcript search engine" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,673, issued on June 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Audiovisual content item transcript search engine" was invented by Kevin J. Burkitt (Palo Alto, Calif.), Eoin G. Dowling (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael M. Bennett (Redwood City, Calif.) and Trevor R. Branon (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-learning systems process data in real-time and output the processed data to client applications in an effective manner. They comprise a capture platform that captures data and generates a stream of text, a text decoding server that extracts individual words from the stream of text, an entity extr...