Facebook Assigned Patent

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,298,827) developed by Spencer, Curtis Wayne, San Francisco, CA, Garg, Avichal, Palo Alto, CA, Witte, Daniel Jonathan, San Francisco, CA, Tieu, Christine J., Sunnyvale, CA, Patni, Chandra Prakash, Brisbane, CA, and Koolwal, Aditya Brij, San Francisco, CA, for a “media recorder.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods enabling the recording of a wide variety of online media for storage and later consumption are disclosed. The media can include audio, video, images, text and multi-media. The stored recordings can be played on internet-enabled devise such as televisions, mobile phones, personal computers, tablets, game systems, or the like. Recording is optionally accomplished using distributed recorders each making use of a virtualized browser.“

The patent application was filed on July 12, 2012 (13/547,926).