US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 24 for "System and methods for providing and consuming online media content" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,042, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System and methods for providing and consuming online media content" was invented by Chaitanya Korupolu (Visakhapatnam, India), Girish Padmanabhan (Pune, India) and Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing online media content. Online audiovisual media to be displayed to a user is provided to a client device. In response to detecting that the user is inattentive relative to the displayed audiovisu...