US Patent Issued to GRACENOTE DIGITAL VENTURES on June 17 for "Playlist selection for audio streaming" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,213, issued on June 17, was assigned to GRACENOTE DIGITAL VENTURES LLC (New York).

"Playlist selection for audio streaming" was invented by Venkatarama Anilkumar Panguluri (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment may involve determining that a client device (such as a smartphone, tablet, or in-automobile audio device) is in an automobile and that the client device has access to a playlist of audio content. Possibly based on the client device being in the automobile and having access to the playlist of audio content, the client device may request a stream of the audio content. As a consequence of making t...