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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2025
Iheartmedia Management Services, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Daniel N. Mactiernan, Ocean City, NJ (US);
Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn, Cincinnati, OH (US);
David C. Jellison, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey James Bengel, Springboro, OH (US);
Todd Louis Goldberg, Chicago, IL (US);
iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving a playback manifest, which includes destination platform information indicating that a destination to which media items included in the playback manifest are to be transmitted is an automotive application platform, and a hosted media location indicating a media source from which a media item included in the playback manifest is available. The method also includes determining whether the media item is available at a device co-located with the automotive application platform, and in response to determining that the media item is available at the device co-located with the automotive application platform, substituting the hosted media location in the playback manifest with an updated hosted media location, the updated host media location indicating the device co-located with the automotive application platform.