US 12,192,571 B2
Video playback based on an HTML iframe and a headless browser
Amotz Terem, Jerusalem (IL)
Assigned to Synamedia Limited, Maidenhead (GB)
Filed by Synamedia Limited, Staines Upon Thames (GB)
Filed on Sep. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/947,722.
Prior Publication US 2024/0098333 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 13/00 (2018.01); G06F 16/958 (2019.01); H04N 21/432 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/44 (2013.01) [G06F 16/958 (2019.01); H04N 21/4325 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
at a first device including a processor, a non-transitory memory, and a communication interface:
receiving, via the communication interface, a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) inline frame (iframe) from a second device, wherein the HTML iframe is associated with a video tag; and
playing a video stream that is identified by the video tag, wherein playing the video stream includes:
executing the HTML iframe via a headless browser, in order to retrieve the video stream based on the video tag, wherein the headless browser does not use a predefined receiver application in order to retrieve the video stream, and
transmitting the video stream to a display device.