TiVo has not exactly looked comfortable in its own skin in recent years, so it was nice to see an executive from the Xperi-owned TV technology company talking sense this week not about patents or finances, but about the evolving metadata practices that will define TiVo’s next frontier. Appearing on a pre-recorded panel at the virtualized Connected TV World Summit, TiVo’s Patrick Byrden, Head of Sales Engineering, revealed that the company has since merged into a discovery team (which presumably occurred some time after Xperi completed the takeover a year ago, also implying job cuts). He noted how this new, streamlined team is moving beyond metadata, where TiVo has a long history, to so-called richer sets of data, which are…