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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 12014040 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 27, 2023

Dynamic resizable media item player

Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Matthew Thomas Darby, San Francisco, CA (US);

Clifford Curry, San Francisco, CA (US);

Bryce Gibson Reid, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrey Doronichev, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew Janich, Mountain View, CA (US);

Alan Joyce, Mountain View, CA (US);

Taeho Ko, San Francisco, CA (US);

Justin Lewis, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);

Kevin Greene, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Primary Examiner:

Shourjo Dasgupta

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/38 (2018.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0241 (2023.01); H04L 65/60 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0277 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein is a method for managing media item playback. A method includes presenting a media player in a first portion of a user interface (UI) provided by a first application on a screen of a user device, the media player to provide playback of a first media item from a first post of a plurality of posts of the first application. The method also includes relocating the media player to a second portion of the UI while continuing to provide playback of the first media item by the relocated media player, and receiving a user gesture to scroll through the plurality of posts of the first application on the screen of the user device, the plurality of posts comprising a second post having a second media item. The method further includes upon receiving the user gesture to scroll through the plurality of posts of the first application, allowing a user to view the second media item in the second post while continuing to provide playback of the first media item by the relocated media player.

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