Patent ID: 9681086
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: causing, by a device including a hardware processor, a video to be played back in a video application, wherein the video application is presented in a foreground of a multitasking operating system of the device; while the video is played back in the video application being presented in the foreground of the multitasking operating system of the device, detecting, by the device, a first input that moves the video application from the foreground to a background of the multitasking operating system of the device; in response to detecting the first input, causing, by the device, the video application to be moved to the background and determining a first current playback point of the video in the video application; in response to moving the video application to the background of the multitasking operating system of the device, causing a video widget application to be presented on an interface of the multitasking operating system of the device; and causing, by the device, the video to continue being played back at the first current playback point within the video widget application being presented on the interface of the multitasking operating system of the device.