US Patent Issued to Gracenote on May 20 for "Method and system for generating podcast metadata to facilitate searching and recommendation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,864, issued on May 20, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Method and system for generating podcast metadata to facilitate searching and recommendation" was invented by Aneesh Vartakavi (Emeryville, Calif.) and Casper Lutzhoft Christensen (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for computer-based generation of podcast metadata, to facilitate operations such as searching for and recommending podcasts based on the generated metadata. In an example method, a computing system obtains a text representation of a podcast episode and obtains person data defining a list of person names such as celebrity ...