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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas Alsina, Mountian View, CA (US);
Lucas Newman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas James Paulson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Elbert D. Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Augustin Prats, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew T. Belk, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Pairing a portable electronic device with a media device that is playing media, providing control to the portable device, displaying information about the media being played on the portable electronic device, and providing a link to the media asset in an online store. Discovering that a media device that is currently publically playing media, receiving a media signal encoded with metadata describing the media being played, and displaying an accrued history of various instances of media items that have been overheard during a public play session as a list of media items associated with metadata describing the media items.