ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,255, issued on March 11, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Skipping the opening sequence of streaming content" was invented by Anthony Wood (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Joseph Hollinger (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various embodiments directed to skipping the opening sequence of streaming content. An embodiment operates by streaming content to a display device and determining an end of a teaser portion has been reached using crowdsourced metadata. Responsive to the determining, a skin icon is provided to the display device for display. A selection of the skip icon is received to adva...