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Utility
Offline Voice Control
30 Jun 22
As noted above, example techniques relate to offline voice control.
Connor Smith
Filed: 13 Dec 21
Utility
Portable Playback Device State Variable
23 Jun 22
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate playback of multimedia content are disclosed.
Mieko Kusano
Filed: 27 Dec 21
Utility
Queue identification in a wearable playback device
21 Jun 22
Example techniques relate to a playback device that facilitates queue identification.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Calibration of playback device(s)
21 Jun 22
Example techniques involve calibration of one or more playback devices.
Ananth Jasty, Aurelio Ramos, Timothy Sheen
Filed: 9 Sep 19
Utility
Playback Device
16 Jun 22
A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements.
Nicholas A.J. Millington
Filed: 22 Nov 21
Utility
Playback Queues for Shared Experiences
16 Jun 22
A first playback device, while operating in a first media playback system, receives from a computing device over a WAN an indication that a second playback device operating in a second media playback system has initiated sharing of a playback session.
Ryan Taylor, Jeffrey Michael Torgerson
Filed: 20 Dec 21
Utility
Synchronizing Playback by Media Playback Devices
16 Jun 22
Example systems, apparatus, and methods receive audio information including a plurality of frames from a source device, wherein each frame of the plurality of frames includes one or more audio samples and a time stamp indicating when to play the one or more audio samples of the respective frame.
Nicholas A.J. Millington, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson
Filed: 4 Mar 22
Utility
Playback Device Queue Access Levels
16 Jun 22
Based on a credential, an access level of a playback queue for a first control interface and a first subset and second subset of media items in the playback queue may be determined.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Andrew J. Schulert
Filed: 29 Nov 21
Utility
Do Not Disturb Feature for Audio Notifications
16 Jun 22
Systems and methods for actuating a Do Not Disturb (DND) feature of a playback device that is configured to play back alert notifications from a plurality of network-enabled devices include (i) a mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of the playback device; (ii) the mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of a DND time period; and (iii) responsive to receiving the input data representing the selections of the playback device and the DND time period, sending an instruction to the selected playback device that causes the selected playback device to enter a DND mode for the duration of the selected DND time period, during which the selected playback device is instructed to not play back alert notifications when the alert notifications are received from at least one network-enabled device of the plurality of network-enabled devices.
Robert A. Lambourne, Nathan Fish
Filed: 26 Jul 21
Utility
Remote Playback Queue
16 Jun 22
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate discovery and remote configuration of content for playback via a multimedia playback network are disclosed.
Mark Triplett, Jonathan P. Lang, Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 3 Mar 22
Utility
Controlling Multi-Site Media Playback Systems
16 Jun 22
Systems and methods for controlling multi-site media playback systems include, among other features, a computing system (i) receiving, from a first media playback device connected to a first network, a first registration message, (ii) in response to receiving the first registration message, assigning a system identifier and a first subsystem identifier to the first media playback device, (iii) receiving, from a second media playback device connected to the first network, a second registration message, (iv) in response to receiving the second registration message, assigning the system identifier and the first subsystem identifier to the second media playback device, (v) determining that the second media playback device is disconnected from the first network and connected to a second network, and (vi) in response to determining that the second media playback device is connected to the second network, assigning a second subsystem identifier to the second media playback device.
Seth David Goldstein, Greg Ramsperger, Michael Agerbak, Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Andy Mellors, Nikit Waghela, Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 22 Nov 21
Utility
Social playback queues
14 Jun 22
An example method involves monitoring, by a computing device, a communications feed for an indication of media and detecting, in the communications feed, the indication of the media.
Eric Clayton, Danny Valente
Filed: 14 Dec 20
Utility
Conditional wake word eventing based on environment
14 Jun 22
In one aspect, a playback device includes at least one microphone configured to detect sound.
Connor Smith, John Tolomei, Kurt Soto
Filed: 12 Jun 19
Utility
Intelligent amplifier activation
14 Jun 22
Embodiments are provided for intelligently activating an amplifier in a playback device based on proximity detection.
Jonathon Reilly, Jonathan Lang
Filed: 27 Jul 20
Utility
Pre-Caching of Media
9 Jun 22
Example techniques involve pre-caching media content.
Jonathon Reilly
Filed: 12 Nov 21
Design
Headphone
7 Jun 22
Vincent Shyu, Aki Laine, Dana Krieger, Philippe Vossel
Filed: 5 Jun 20
Utility
Dynamic earbud profile
7 Jun 22
Embodiments disclosed herein include a headphone device which operates in various modes applying different gesture profiles based on various operational, playback, or environmental conditions.
Hilmar Lehnert
Filed: 1 Mar 21
Utility
Playback transitions
7 Jun 22
Examples described herein relate to transitioning a playback session between portable playback devices such as “smart” headphones, earbuds, and handheld speakers with playback devices of a zone-based media playback system.
Dayn Wilberding, Youjin Nam, Tadeo T. Toulis, Cole Harris, Patrick Devine, Ncholas A. J. Millington, Jodi Vautrin, Maria-Jose Ramos, Richard Bannon, Michael Sheldon, Ted Lin, Ron Kuper, Kirsten Lewis, Jake Harwood, Jonathan Herbst
Filed: 28 Feb 20
Utility
Noise classification for event detection
7 Jun 22
In one aspect, a network microphone device includes a plurality of microphones and is configured to detect sound via the one or more microphones.
Nick D'Amato, Kurt Thomas Soto, Connor Kristopher Smith
Filed: 21 Dec 20
Utility
Metadata exchange involving a networked playback system and a networked microphone system
2 Jun 22
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for establishing a metadata exchange channel between a media playback system and a networked microphone system, wherein the networked microphone system comprises a networked microphone device and a networked microphone server.
Mark Plagge, Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts
Filed: 4 Oct 21