US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 30 for "Timeline for media content playback" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,427, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Timeline for media content playback" was invented by Hongcheng Wang (Arlington, Va.), Jan Neumann (Arlington, Va.) and Jonghyun Choi (North Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for identifying highlights of a content item. A media clip may be obtained from a content sharing service. The media clip may correspond to a media content. A portion of the media content that is included in the media clip may be determined, and a popularity value of the media clip may be obtained from the content ...