US Patent Issued to Gracenote Media Services on Jan. 13 for "Video matching service to offline counterpart" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,464, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Gracenote Media Services LLC (New York).

"Video matching service to offline counterpart" was invented by Edwin Seng Eng Ong (San Francisco), Aleksandra R. Vikati (San Francisco), Brian T. Schroeder (San Francisco), Joel H Wood (San Francisco) and Min Kyung M. Chang (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for video matching service to offline counterpart are disclosed. An example method includes accessing an address for an online media asset, accessing metadata associated with the online media asset, wherein the metadata includes an asset attribute, determining...