ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,168, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for resuming playback on a next available active device" was invented by David Gerald Wittke (Simi Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automatically cueing content for playback on a second device after it is paused or stopped on a first device. A content direction device is in electronic communication with user devices and content providers. This content direction device directs streamed content from the content providers to the various user devices. When a user pauses or stops playback at ...