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Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2022
Applicant:

Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:

Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/43 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/43076 (2020.08); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are described for operating a group watching session, in which a group watching session for presentation of a media content item is initiated at a first participant device and a second participant device; a segment of the media content item for which the presentation of the media content item is to be synchronized at the first participant device and the second participant device is identified; a viewing progress of the media content item at the first participant device is determined to be different from a viewing progress of the media content item at the second participant device; and in response to the determining, the viewing progress at the first and second participant devices is synchronized for the presentation of the identified segment.


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