ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,896, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Methods, systems, and media for navigating through a stream of content items" was invented by Marco Paglia (San Francisco), William Frederick Kiefer (Seattle) and Jokubas Zukerman (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for navigating through content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a first plurality of interactive stream items; causing the first plurality of interactive stream items to be presented in a first presentation mode; receiving a first user selection of an interactive stream ite...