US Patent Issued to Rakuten Group on Oct. 28 for "Distribution management for providing recommendation video in accordance with topic being viewed" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,386, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Distribution management for providing recommendation video in accordance with topic being viewed" was invented by Ko Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distribution management system (101) plays, on a screen, a video (A) in which a plurality of topics (a1, a2.. ) is sequentially covered, determines a topic (a1) currently being covered on the screen on which the video (A) is being played, identifies a list (L1) of recommendation videos (X1) in which a topic related to the determined topic (a1) is covered, and provides the identified list (L1) via the scr...