Researchers Submit Patent Application, 'Determining A Time Point To Skip To With in A Media Item Using User Interaction Events', for Approval (USPTO 20240357202)
Researchers Submit Patent Application, 'Determining A Time Point To Skip To With in A Media Item Using User Interaction Events', for Approval (USPTO 20240357202)
No assignee for this patent application has been made.News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“A platform (e.g., a content platform) can transmit (e.g., stream) media items to client devices connected to the platform via a network. A media item can include a video item and/or an audio item, in someinstances. Us ers can consume the transmitted media items via a user interface (UI) provided b y theplatform. In some instances, the user may wish to skip to a particular tim e point during current playbackof the transmitted media item instead of consumi ng the entire transmitted media item from the start.The user may interact with a scroll bar on the UI to scroll to the particular time point to which they wishto skip.”
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