ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,129, issued on March 18, was assigned to Pluto Inc. (West Hollywood, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for automated content generation" was invented by Chan V. Hou (Long Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the disclosure related to methods and systems configured to distribute interactive media, such as videos, streamed or downloaded over a network and to enable efficient content discovery. An aspect relates to enabling a user to interactively navigate through representations of video content by drilling up to broader genre categories or down to narrower genre categories. An aspect relates to the generation of cust...