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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2014
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Mikkel Crone Köser, Vanløse, DK;

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/6587 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/2743 (2011.01); H04N 21/235 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2353 (2013.01); H04N 21/235 (2013.01); H04N 21/2743 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); H04N 21/6587 (2013.01); H04N 21/8455 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and techniques are provided for smart snap to interesting points in media content. A position control input may be received from a user to a control interface for a content player being used with a content item. A smart snap point and an associated smart snap area t may be determined for the content item based on the received position control input. The smart snap point and the associated smart snap area may be stored. A second position control input to the control interface for the content player being used with the content item may be received. The position control input may be determined to move a position indicator into the associated smart snap area for the smart snap point. Use of the content item may be resumed with the content player from the smart snap point.


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