ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,926, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Video annotation based on social media trends" was invented by Gray Cannon (Miami), Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto (Sao Paulo) and Vagner Figueredo De Santana (Sao Paulo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customized video stream is provided. A second content is searched for that includes the plurality of entities, and a plurality of user data associated with the social media account. A hierarchy of additional content is generated based, at least in part, on the second content that is associated with the plurality of entities, and the user data as...