ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,701, issued on March 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for synchronizing playback of media content items" was invented by Akshay Chetan Shah (Mumbai, India), Padmassri Chandrashekar (Karnataka, India) and Daina Emmanuel (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for synchronizing playback of media content items. A first media content item is displayed at first user equipment and second user equipment. At least one playback parameter relating to the operation of the first user equipment and/or the second user equipment is determined. A determination ...