US Patent Issued to Dropbox on April 15 for "Synchronized video viewing using a logical clock" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,006, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Synchronized video viewing using a logical clock" was invented by Alan Rogers (Brunswick, Australia), Siya Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Daniel Wagner (New York), Dylan Nelson (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jason Stakelon (Sausalito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology pertains to synchronized video viewing that is supported by the use of a pending changes count to keep the client devices in synchronization while providing a user experience that matches the expectations of the user. A second client device can receive input to change some aspect of the pla...