US Patent Issued to Spotify on Nov. 25 for "Identifier shortening for narration media items" (Swedish, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,450, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Identifier shortening for narration media items" was invented by Paolo La Camera (Hoeilaart, Belgium) and Erik Johan Curcio Lindstrom (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating synthesized speech is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to play a sequence of media items. The sequence of media items may include a media track and a narration media item that relates to the media track. The method further comprises generating a media item identifier for the narration media item. Based on compatibility information of a media pla...