US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 28 for "Playing media content in response to triggers" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,374, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Playing media content in response to triggers" was invented by Stuart James Myron Nicholson (Waterloo, Canada) and Steven Benjamin Goldberg (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium can comprise instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions can be configured to cause a mobile computing device to receive, from a companion device, multiple files, each of the multiple files including at least media content, a trigger condition, and an action to be performed ...