ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,166, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Media contextual information for a displayed resource" was invented by Ibrahim Badr (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing contextual information for presented media. In one aspect, a method includes storing in a buffer, on a first user device, media data as buffered media data, the buffered media data being a most recent portion of media data received at the first user device, the most recent portion inclusive of the media data received from a pr...