US Patent Issued to Netflix on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for predicting disruptions in digital content system sessions" (New York, Kansas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,471, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for predicting disruptions in digital content system sessions" was invented by Prasanna Vijayanathan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Christian Pavlakis (New York City, N.Y.) and Andrew David Eichacker (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented methods and systems leverage machine learning techniques to generate disruption predictions associated with digital media sessions. For example, the methods and systems discussed herein generate input features for a deep neural network that represent various ...