Apple Inc.

Garrick McFarlane

Thomas M Alsina

Charles John Pisula

David Heller

Arvind S Shenoy

Alejandro A Rodriguez

Neale Patton

Raymond Neil Walsh, Ii

Improved techniques for interacting with media content so as to provide a unified experience of media content across different client devices in a client-server environment are disclosed. Media content may be displayed on first display of a first client device. Using a server computer, a status of the media content may be communicated from the first client device to a second client device. The media content may be displayed on a second display of the second client device, in accordance with the status of the media content from the first client device.

Unified playback position

Pausing and resuming playback of a media item across a group of devices that belong to a user. A server maintains a media queue that includes playback records that contain a unique media item identifier and a bookmark position. When a pause instruction is received on a client device, the pause instruction is transmitted to the server as a playback record. The server in turn transmits the received playback record to other client devices within a group of client devices that belong to the user account of the client device.

Media playback across multiple devices

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for determining encoding media station fingerprints and determining if media station fingerprints are related. Also disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for allowing client devices to preview sample media stations prior to actually creating a media station, receiving user interaction data relating to the user's activity with a sample media station, storing sample station fingerprints along with client device interaction data and using the client device interaction data to influence media item sequence generation rules for an additional related media station.

Station fingerprinting

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London, United Kingdom

Garrick McFarlane