ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,076, issued on March 25, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"User control mode of a companion application" was invented by Snehal Karia (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for enabling a user control mode of a companion application. An example embodiment operates by receiving a selection of a category of content on a media device. The content comprises contextual information. The media device is controlled by the companion application. In response...