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Utility
Audio notifications
25 Oct 22
Systems and methods for a playback device outputting an audio alert from a network-enabled device include (i) while the playback device is playing back audio content, receiving an alert communication from the network-enabled device, the alert communication including (a) an audio notification identifier that identifies an audio notification and (b) a priority identifier that identifies a priority level of the audio notification; (ii) responsive to receiving the alert communication, adding the audio notification to a notification queue at a particular queue position, where the particular queue position of the audio notification in the notification queue is based on the priority level of the audio notification relative to other audio content in the notification queue; (iii) adjusting playback of the audio content for playing back the audio notification; and (iv) the playback device playing back the audio notification.
Nathan Fish, Daniel Casimiro
Filed: 24 Aug 20
Utility
Managing application access of a media playback system
25 Oct 22
Examples described herein may include a playback device receiving, from a control device, a validation-key that includes an application identifier corresponding to a controller application.
Andrew Schulert
Filed: 8 Nov 21
Utility
Priority media content
25 Oct 22
An example method includes maintaining (i) a scheduled playlist of media items for playback by one or more playback devices, (ii) a current playback position within the scheduled playlist, and (iii) a priority media item having a playback length.
Ryan Taylor, Joseph Dawson
Filed: 20 Apr 21
Utility
Playback devices having waveguides
25 Oct 22
A playback device comprises an electroacoustic transducer; an acoustic waveguide in fluid communication with the transducer; and a housing delimiting an opening of the waveguide, the opening extending around an axis passing through the transducer.
Michael Chamness, Greg Flanagan, Camille Zaba, Brandon Holley
Filed: 26 May 20
Utility
Systems and methods of providing spatial audio associated with a simulated environment
25 Oct 22
Systems and methods for providing spatial audio are disclosed herein.
Jonathan Cole Harris, Jeffrey Michael Torgerson
Filed: 30 Oct 19
Utility
Room association based on name
25 Oct 22
Systems and methods for use in a media playback system comprising one or more playback devices are disclosed, where a playback device has a corresponding first set of device attributes used by a first controller application.
Dayn Wilberding, Chris Bierbower, Mish Fabok, Jake Szymanski, JD Hooge, Tristan Wood, Chip Truex, Christopher Butts, Paul Bates
Filed: 13 Jul 20
Utility
Transferring playback from a mobile device to a playback device
25 Oct 22
A first connection state may be entered on a computing device.
Abhishek Kumar, Andrew Schulert, Robert Andrew Lambourne, Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 1 Apr 19
Utility
Transferring playback from a mobile device to a playback device
25 Oct 22
A network device is configured to (i) play back a media item indicated by a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system, (ii) receive an indication that a playback device is available for playback, (iii) display a now playing screen including (a) information identifying the media item, and (b) an icon that indicates that the network device is not in a connected state with any other network device, (iv) receive a first input selecting the icon, (v) in response to the first input, display a list of one or more available network devices including the playback device, (vi) receive a second input selecting the playback device from the list (vii) after receiving the second input, update the list to indicate that the playback device is selected for playback of the remote playback queue, and (viii) transfer playback of the remote playback queue from the network device to the playback device.
Abhishek Kumar, Andrew Schulert, Robert Andrew Lambourne, Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 18 Dec 20
Utility
Facilitating streaming media access via a media-item database
25 Oct 22
Examples described herein relate to facilitating media item access via a media item database.
Steven Beckhardt, Gregory Paul Ramsperger
Filed: 24 Jun 19
Utility
Discovery and media control at a point-of-sale display
25 Oct 22
Example techniques relate to discovery and media control at a point-of-sale display.
Jonathan Lang, Deborah DuBois
Filed: 20 May 19
Utility
Packaging system with slidable latch
25 Oct 22
An example packaging system includes a first box part with a first lid wall, the first lid wall including an aperture.
Dana Krieger, Michelle Enright, Matthew Ka-Ming Chung, Stefan Reichert, Jeremiah Robert Etchison, Christopher George Palmer
Filed: 21 May 19
Design
Speaker stand
18 Oct 22
Dylan Entelis, Matthew Malone, Zachary Scott
Filed: 12 Oct 20
Utility
Audio track selection and playback
18 Oct 22
An example system is configured to: (i) receive data indicating a command to play back, via a playback device of a media playback system, media content; (ii) based on the data indicating the command, detect a first playback condition comprising a first user identity; (iii) identify, from one or more user accounts associated with the playback device, a first user account corresponding to the first user identity; (iv) based at least on (1) the command and (2) one or more properties of the first user account, determine first media content for playback by the playback device; and (v) cause the playback device to play back the first media content.
Robert Reimann, David Taylor, Abhishek Kumar
Filed: 14 Jun 21
Utility
Audio track selection and playback
18 Oct 22
An example system is configured to: (i) receive data indicating a command to play back, via a playback device of a media playback system, media content; (ii) based on the data indicating the command, detect a first playback condition comprising a first user identity; (iii) identify, from one or more user accounts associated with the playback device, a first user account corresponding to the first user identity; (iv) based at least on (1) the command and (2) one or more properties of the first user account, determine first media content for playback by the playback device; and (v) cause the playback device to play back the first media content.
Robert Reimann, David Taylor, Abhishek Kumar
Filed: 7 Jan 22
Utility
Playback Transfer In a Media Playback System
13 Oct 22
Example techniques relate to transferring playback between playback devices within a network media system.
Mark Triplett, Robert Reimann
Filed: 29 Apr 22
Utility
Distributed Synchronization
13 Oct 22
Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof to cause the playback devices in a group of playback devices to play audio content together in synchrony based on playback timing and clock timing, where the audio content and playback timing and the clock timing for use with playing the audio content according to the clock timing are provided by different playback devices in the group of playback devices.
Luis Vega Zayas, Ted M. Lin
Filed: 29 Jun 22
Utility
Group Coordinator Selection
13 Oct 22
A first playback is configured to (i) determine that it is connected to a local data network using a first networking protocol, (ii) receive a command to join a second playback device in a group of playback devices that are configured for synchronous playback of audio content from an audio source, (iii) determine that the second playback device is connected to the local data network using a second networking protocol different from the first networking protocol, (iv) based on determining that the second playback device is connected to the local data network using a second networking protocol different from the first networking protocol, configure the first playback device as a group coordinator of the group of playback devices, and (v) while rendering the audio content, (a) receive the audio content from the audio source and (b) forward at least a portion of the received audio content to the second playback device.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Jonathan Lang
Filed: 25 Apr 22
Utility
Seamless Transition of Source of Media Content
13 Oct 22
In one aspect, a playback device is configured to (i) receive a first stream of audio data representing audio content from a computing system, (ii) detect an indication that a source of the audio content is to switch from the computing system to a user device; (iii) after detecting the indication, establish a point-to-point wireless link with the user device over which to receive a second stream of audio data; (iv) receive the second stream of audio data representing the audio content; (v) determine a future time at which to transition from playing back the audio content using the first stream of audio data to playing back the audio content using the second stream of audio data; and (vi) at the future time, transition from playing back the audio content using the first stream of audio data to playing back the audio content using the second stream of audio data.
Cameron Ellison Korb, David Lawrence Bernstein
Filed: 29 Apr 22
Utility
Guest access to a media playback system
11 Oct 22
Example techniques may involve guest access to a media playback system.
Paul Bates, Lee Keyser-Allen, Jonathan P. Lang, Diane Roberts, Nicholas A. J. Millington
Filed: 19 Apr 21
Utility
Limited-access media
11 Oct 22
An example method involves receiving, by a playback device in a media playback system, limited-access media, where the limited-access media corresponds to a limited-access playback device characteristic.
Brad Wolf, Ben Smith
Filed: 14 Sep 20