US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 18 for "Contextualization of digital content" (Texas, Georgia, New York, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,971, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Contextualization of digital content" was invented by Zachary A. Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Logan Bailey (Atlanta), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Melanie Dauber (Oceanside, N.Y.) and Jacob Ryan Jepperson (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contextualization of digital content includes generating a corpus of metadata associated with a user, including technical information about devices and applications that execute on the devices, and interaction data describing usage of the devices and applications that execute on t...