ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,420, issued on March 11, was assigned to DIVX LLC (San Diego).
"Synchronizing multiple over the top streaming clients" was invented by William Amidei (San Diego) and Jason Braness (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for synchronizing the playback of OTT or other time sensitive content on multiple playback devices is disclosed. The systems and methods include receiving time information based on a network time source in the playback devices. The playback clock in each playback device is set based upon the time information. Stream initiation information derived using the time information from the network time ...