US Patent Issued to Backbone Labs on July 14 for "System and method for rich content browsing multitasking on device operating systems with multitasking limitations" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,040, issued on July 14, was assigned to Backbone Labs Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.).

"System and method for rich content browsing multitasking on device operating systems with multitasking limitations" was invented by Casey Chow (Seattle), Rohan Kapur (San Francisco) and Kauhi Hookano (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller can be used with a computing device to select and/or interact with content using user input devices on the controller. The content can be locally-stored on the computing device and/or streamed from a remote device. In one embodiment, a contextually-aware platform service switcher is provided. In anoth...