ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,157, issued on March 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for media content hand-off based on type of buffered data" was invented by Vikram Makam Gupta (Bangalore, India), Muni Ramaiah Bandham (Bangalore, India) and Santhiya Krishnamoorthi (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for handing off media content. A media player client receives a request to transfer a media stream, which is playing on a first media device, to a second media device. In response to determining that the second media device comprises a larger screen than the first media devi...