US Patent Issued to NAPSTER on March 31 for "HLS global synchronization and multi-viewer watch parties" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,089, issued on March 31, was assigned to NAPSTER Corp. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"HLS global synchronization and multi-viewer watch parties" was invented by Paul Kolesa (Hermosa Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synchronizing is performed of multiple live Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Live Streaming (HLS) streams in hypertext markup language (HTML) MediaElements. Time differentials are computed between video encoder date/time tags and current date/time retrieved from a universal time (UTC) time server. A playhead position of an HTML MediaElement is controlled to maintain a calculated time offset value defined as the curren...