US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT on July 15 for "Systems and methods for operating a streaming service to provide community spaces for media content items" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,385, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for operating a streaming service to provide community spaces for media content items" was invented by Jonathan Webb (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A community space is established for a media content item. Data items are received from contributing account holders. Each data item has metadata including an index time corresponding to a time of relevance of the data item during playback of the media content item. Each data item is separate from the media content item. The data items and their associate...