US Patent Issued to Backbone Labs on Oct. 7 for "Contextually-aware platform service switcher" (Washington, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,949, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Backbone Labs Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.).

"Contextually-aware platform service switcher" was invented by Joshua Donlan (Oviedo, Fla.), Hong Tai Wei (Seattle) and Andrew Sibert (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller can be used with a computing device to select and/or interact with content using user input devices on the controller. The content can be locally-stored on the computing device and/or streamed from a remote device. In one embodiment, a contextually-aware platform service switcher is provided. In another embodiment, a system and method for automatic content capabil...