US 11,966,561 B1
Dynamic instream autoplay based on presence of watch while mini player
Kevin Greene, San Francisco, CA (US); and Justin Lewis, Marina del Rey, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/001,419.
Application 17/001,419 is a continuation of application No. 15/676,719, filed on Aug. 14, 2017, granted, now 10,754,512.
Application 15/676,719 is a continuation of application No. 14/300,144, filed on Jun. 9, 2014, granted, now 9,733,809, issued on Aug. 15, 2017.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01)
CPC G06F 3/0482 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
responsive to user input, scrolling, by a processing device, a plurality of elements visible on a user interface (UI) to scroll out of view, from the UI, one or more first elements of the plurality of elements that were visible in the UI prior to the user input, and to scroll into view, in the UI, one or more second elements that were not visible in the UI prior to the user input, the one or more second elements comprising at least one of a first media player or a second media player, wherein the first media player and the second media player are concurrently visible in the UI responsive to the scrolling, and wherein at least one of the first media player or the second media player is configured to automatically play a corresponding media item responsive to being scrolled into view; and
responsive to first playback of a first media item via the first media player having priority over second playback of a second media item via the second media player, preventing, by the processing device, the second playback of the second media item during the first playback of the first media item.