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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas Alsina, Mountain View, CA (US);
Charles J. Pisula, Bethesda, MD (US);
Garrick McFarlane, London, GB;
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/6587 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01); H04N 21/8352 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/6587 (2013.01); H04N 21/4122 (2013.01); H04N 21/4333 (2013.01); H04N 21/4751 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); H04N 21/8352 (2013.01); H04N 21/8455 (2013.01);
Abstract
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.