ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,029, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Spooler Media Inc. (Bend, Ore.).
"Automatic media content layering system" was invented by Daniel Benjamin (Austin, Texas), Henry Blodget (Brooklyn, N.Y.), James O. Boggs (Bend, Ore.), Andrew Bowers (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Kerry Donahue (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are mechanisms that allow automatic media content layering. The systems and methods obtain a media content list that includes a plurality of different types of media content segment entries. Media content tracks are determined from the plurality of media content segment entries and are based on the type of th...