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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2024
Adeia Guides Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
David Wittke, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Adeia Guides Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for automatically determining when a single party is playing or requesting conflicting content on two different devices, and resolving the conflict accordingly. Systems automatically identify when a single user is playing back a content stream on one device, then requests another content stream on another device. If the two content streams conflict, the conflict is automatically resolved in a number of ways, including by automatically pausing or redirecting one of the content streams. Conflict identification may also be carried out with the assistance of an added state flag that indicates a device or stream that has audio priority in a conflict. Thus, for example, when one user requests two conflicting content streams, and only one stream is associated with the conditional audio enabled flag, audio of the flagged stream may be played, while the other stream is muted.