US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on July 22 for "Method and system for synchronizing play position between main player and companion devices and providing value added services" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,934, issued on July 22, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Method and system for synchronizing play position between main player and companion devices and providing value added services" was invented by Ramesh Narayanaswamy (Bengaluru, India), Anand Madhav Rao Hallur (Bengaluru, India), Sandeep Guddekoppa Suresh (Bengaluru, India) and Krishna Prasad Panje (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A companion device for use with a server device, a media device and a display device, the server device having stored therein a metadata manifest including metadata and time data associated with content and being c...