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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2014
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Siddharth Chitnis, Irving, TX (US);
Michael R. Oliver, Wayne, NJ (US);
VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A device may provide a video content item for display and receive a request to share the video content item with another device for a synchronized playing of the video content item by the device and the other device. The device may generate a stream of the video content item based on a point within the video content item currently played by the device and transmit the stream to the other device to synchronize playing of the video content item by the device and the other device. The device may obtain information identifying a particular point within the video content item currently played by the other device, determine a synchronization point, in the video content item, based on the obtained information, and update, based on the synchronization point, to synchronize the stream. The device may transmit the synchronized stream, to the other device, to re-synchronize playing of the video content item.