US Patent Issued to Spotify on May 19 for "Snapping to seek positions in media content using seek guides" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,558, issued on May 19, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).

"Snapping to seek positions in media content using seek guides" was invented by Erik Johan Curcio Lindstrom (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for snapping to seek positions in media content using seek guides are provided. Seek guides may be associated with a media content item. Each seek guide may have a position and a radius. When a user seeks to a reference position, a seek guide selector may select a seek guide to use in setting a new playback position. The seek guide selector may use a probabilistic distribution positioned based on the refer...