US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 7 for "Shared media" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,928, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Shared media" was invented by Andrew John Laister (Cambridge, Great Britain), John Turner (Ely, Great Britain), Miran Chun (San Diego) and Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first device includes one or more processors configured to determine, based on one or more wireless signals, a candidate device list identifying one or more devices that are within a communication range of one or more sensing devices. The one or more processors are further configured to, based on a determination to initiate a shared media session with a second device ...