US Patent 12081836 Systems and methods for creating a shared playback session

While a first media content item from a shared playback session is being presented on a set of presentation devices, each of the set of presentation devices corresponding to a respective user of a plurality of users in the shared playback session, a master device receives a request to modify playback of the shared playback session from an observer device of a set of observer devices that corresponds to a presentation device for a first user, wherein the set of observer devices is different from the set of presentation devices. In response to the request to modify playback of the shared playback session, the master device sends a command for an action selected based on the request to each of the set of presentation devices.