ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,408, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Topical content searching" 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 incoming data from sources such broadcast, cable, or IP-driven television and can discover topics that broadly describe the incoming data in real-time. These topics can be used to gather and store metadata from various metadata sources such as social networks. Using the metadata, content del...