US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 14 for "Media content casting in network-connected television devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,668, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Media content casting in network-connected television devices" was invented by Saleh Altayyar (Modesto, Calif.) and Sourav Basu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to presenting a unified user interface on a network-connected television device. The unified user interface displays media content recommendations selected and organized based on knowledge of a user (e.g., search queries, search results, watch history, purchase history, physical activities). The unified user interface also includes a focus area for displayi...