US Patent Issued to Google on July 8 for "Integrating short-term context for content playback adaption" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,041, issued on July 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Integrating short-term context for content playback adaption" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich, Switzerland) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While an assistant-enabled device is playing back media content, a method includes receiving a contextual signal from an environment of the assistant-enabled device and executing an event recognition routine to determine whether the received contextual signal is indicative of an event that conflicts with the playback of the media content from the assistant-enabled device. W...