US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Feb. 4 for "Video distribution in which chapter is set based on reaction of streamer during distribution" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,217, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Video distribution in which chapter is set based on reaction of streamer during distribution" was invented by Ko Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distribution controller (141) distributes a live video provided from a streamer to a plurality of terminals each of which has a comment area, the comment area allowing a predetermined number of comments to be displayed. A receiver (120) receives a comment posted from, among the plurality of terminals, a viewer terminal used by a viewer during distribution of the live video. A sender (110) sends a comment that ...