ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,500, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Branching logic in a playback environment" was invented by Kevin Pei-Wen Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Lawrence E. Jones (San Mateo, Calif.) and Joseph Peyton Lea IV (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing a pre-rendered multimedia item. The pre-rendered multimedia item may have branching logic associated with it, where the branching logic includes branching points that direct non-sequential playback of the pre-rendered multimedia item. The method may also include initializing playback of the p...