US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 30 for "Mechanism to handle interrupted playback experience for media items in playlists" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,380, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Mechanism to handle interrupted playback experience for media items in playlists" was invented by Justin Lewis (Marina del Rey, Calif.) and Ruxandra Georgiana Paun (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include in response to a user request for a playlist, identifying a plurality of media items from the playlist, determining whether a media item from the playlist is available for a playback on a user device, in response to a determination that the media item is not available for the playback on the user device, causing the use de...