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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2023
Yahoo Assets Llc, New York, NY (US);
Mikul Bhatt, Danville, CA (US);
Ajit Bhate, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sreekanth Mamidala, Mountain House, CA (US);
Judes Sarmiento, Redwood City, CA (US);
Robert Rallison, Smithfield, UT (US);
John Bowers, Provo, UT (US);
Neha Dike, San Jose, CA (US);
Amit Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alex Austin, Farmington, UT (US);
Anupam Kumar, Dublin, CA (US);
James Lou, Cupertino, CA (US);
Herry Leonard, Fremont, CA (US);
Ronald Jacoby, Saratoga, CA (US);
Roger Urrabazo, Gilroy, CA (US);
YAHOO ASSETS LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving a request from a client device to join a room, the room associate with a plurality of other client devices streaming multimedia content; adding the client device to the room in response to the request; computing a synchronization time for the client based on time values associated with the client device and the other client devices; and transmitting the synchronization time to the client device, causing the client device to adjust playback of the multimedia content based on the synchronization time.