COORDINATING OUTPUT OF CONTENT DURING A MULTIUSER COMMUNICATION SESSION

    公开(公告)号:WO2022245673A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-24

    申请号:PCT/US2022/029322

    申请日:2022-05-13

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: The subject technology provides for coordinating output of content during a multiuser communication session by initiating, by a server responsive to a request from a first participant device of a plurality of participant devices that are connected to a multiuser communication session, a media playback session for the multiuser communication session. A network identifier corresponding to the media playback session is generated at the server. The network identifier is transmitted by the server to remainder of participant devices connected to the multiuser communication session. Upon receiving an indication of a selection of the network identifier from at least a second participant device of the plurality of the participant devices at the server, the server causes media for the media playback session to be transmitted to the first participant device and the second participant device.

    SYNCHRONIZED SHARED PLAYLISTS
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:WO2019236381A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-12

    申请号:PCT/US2019/034691

    申请日:2019-05-30

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to synchronized sharing of playlists from a source client device to a listening client device. To facilitate synchronized sharing, a current playlist of one or more tracks of digital content is obtained from the source client device. A current playback location within the currently playing playlist is also obtained from the source client device. A shared queue accessible by the listener client device is generated. Further, a shared queue context for the listener client device is identified based in part upon the current playback location. This enables the listener client device to start playback synchronized with the source client device.

    REDUCING STARTUP DELAYS FOR PRESENTING REMOTE MEDIA ITEMS

    公开(公告)号:WO2018212884A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-22

    申请号:PCT/US2018/027810

    申请日:2018-04-16

    Applicant: APPLE INC.

    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can reduce startup delays for presenting remote media items. For example, when a user requests media content from a media service, the computing system can include information about the first media item to be played in the initial startup messages to reduce the number of roundtrips needed between client and server devices to present the first media item. A media item can include an introductory asset. The introductory asset can be a portion of the full media item that can be decrypted with a local key or not encrypted at all so that a media client can receive and start presenting the introductory media asset quickly while the full media item is being processed by the media client. In some implementations, the system can remove leading silence from the media item so that the amount of delay perceived by the user is reduced.

    MERGING PLAYLISTS FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:EP3598318A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-22

    申请号:EP19189582.0

    申请日:2012-09-27

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: The present technology resolves playlist version conflicts resulting from modifications made to a playlist version, stored on a client device and in a cloud locker, when the client device and the cloud locker are in a disconnected state. The present technology is a heuristic for determining how to resolve such version conflicts. Upon reconnection of the client and cloud locker, the server, associated with cloud locker attempts to reconcile any version discrepancies resulting from user-initiated changes. In one embodiment, when the server determines that one of the playlists on the client or server is a superset of the other, the superset is selected and saved to both the client and cloud locker, while the subset version is deleted.

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