Spotify Patents
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- Contextual And Location Aware Services
- Personalized Media Recommendations
- User Interface Design
- Music And Audio Recognition
- Synchronized Playback Across Devices
- Voice Control And Virtual Assistants
- Advertising And Sponsor-Directed Content
- Playlist, Shuffling And Queue Management
- Vehicle And Appliance Integration
- Storage And Database Management
- Plagiarism Detection And Media Rights Management
- User Demographic Analysis
- Live Streaming And Event Management
- Payments And Transactions Systems
Media Caching And Buffering
Spotify filed these patents around Media Caching And Buffering in the last 5 years
| # | Patent No. | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | US20190324940A1 | Media content caching and state prediction to improve media playback on devices like smartphones, tablets, and cars |
| 2. | US9654531B2 | A method to seamlessly transition between compressed media streams without interrupting playback |
| 3. | US11343295B2 | Systems and methods for remotely controlling media presentation on electronic devices |
| 4. | US9654532B2 | Seeking within media content quickly and efficiently to provide a more seamless user experience |
| 5. | US10630527B2 | Using seektables to enable efficient streaming of media items |
| 6. | US10110947B2 | A method for switching between video streams on electronic devices that reduces the time needed to switch between media channels to provide a seamless user experience where media streams are loaded quickly even where network bandwidth is constrained (e.g., by preloading content from one or more adjacent media channels) |
| 7. | US11392285B2 | Improved scrubbing of streamed video to allow seamless playback after scrubbing without flickering |
| 8. | US9973806B2 | A method for providing an uninterrupted user experience when consuming video content on a device with limited bandwidth |
| 9. | US11316944B2 | Predictive media caching on a media-playback device to improve media consumption while in different states |
| 10. | US10425665B2 | Early media buffering using prediction of user behavior to improve the user experience when switching between media options |
| 11. | US11349897B2 | Streaming audio content to electronic devices like smartphones and tablets in a way that allows quick browsing of shorter preview segments while still protecting the full content |
| 12. | US10805369B2 | Early media buffering using prediction of user behavior to improve the response time when streaming media like music or videos over the internet |
| 13. | US20180189021A1 | Caching media content on a media-playback device to enable offline playback when network connectivity is limited or unavailable |
| 14. | US20160337419A1 | Pre-buffering media content in a media device to improve streaming quality and prevent buffering delays |
| 15. | US20210021655A1 | Streaming music on mobile devices with limited streaming support by downloading and decoding smaller chunks of music files from a server and playing them in real-time |
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