Patent ID: 11861262
Assignee: SNAP INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
execute a first application, the first application generating a first audio output and a first video output from one or more multimedia content items;
provide the first audio output to an audio playback function of a user device;
cause the audio playback function to reproduce the first audio output;
provide the first video output to a display function of the user device;
detect a user request to execute a second application, the second application being configured to generate a second audio output and a second video output;
upon detecting the user request:
execute the second application; and
determine whether the first application further generates a first subtitle output from the multimedia content items;

in response to determining that the first application generates the first subtitle output from the multimedia content items:
provide the second audio output of the second application to the audio playback function; and
cause the audio playback function to reproduce the second audio output of the second application while the display function of the user device causes display of the first video output of the first application

detect a user input via volume controls of the user device; and
in response to detecting the user input, cause the audio playback function to reproduce the first audio output of the first application while the display function of the user device causes display of the second video output of the second application.