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Utility
Media preference database
28 Nov 23
Media preferences for a user account (or for multiple user accounts) may be used to guide media playback.
Maarten van der Heide
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Music service selection
28 Nov 23
Methods and apparatus for identifying a music service based on a user command.
Simon Jarvis, Mark Plagge, Christopher Butts
Filed: 22 Nov 21
Utility
Audio Playback Settings for Voice Interaction
23 Nov 23
Example techniques relate to voice interaction in an environment with a media playback system that is playing back audio content.
Klaus Hartung, Romi Kadri
Filed: 1 May 23
Utility
Failure Recovery of Wearable Playback Device
23 Nov 23
An example implementation may involve a group of wearable playback devices including a first wearable playback device and a second wearable playback device.
Steven Beckhardt, Jonathan Paul Lang, Jonathon Reilly
Filed: 7 Aug 23
Utility
Media Content Based on Operational Data
23 Nov 23
An example computing system that maintains a playlist of media items for playback by one or more playback devices receives, from a first playback device, a request to play back the playlist and first operational data and also receives, from a second playback device, a request to play back the playlist and second operational data.
Ryan Taylor, Dmitri Siegel, Helen McDermott
Filed: 24 Apr 23
Utility
Playback Queues for Shared Experiences
23 Nov 23
A computing device configured to (i) while a first playback device is playing back a playback session including a playback queue of media items, receive, from the first playback device: (a) an indication of media items in the playback queue, (b) audio content recorded at a time during playback of the playback queue, and (c) an indication of a playback position in a media item that corresponds to the time, (ii) cause storage of the recorded audio content and the indication of the playback position, (iii) after the playback session, receive a request from a second playback device for the media item, and (iv) transmit (a) the recorded audio content and (b) the indication of the playback position to the second playback device, thereby causing the second playback device to, while playing back the media item, play back the recorded audio content during the playback position in the media item.
Ryan Taylor, Jeffrey Michael Torgerson
Filed: 7 Aug 23
Utility
Information display regarding playback queue subscriptions
21 Nov 23
Example techniques relate to playback queue subscriptions.
Chris Bierbower, Philippe Vossel
Filed: 5 Oct 20
Utility
Managing application access of a media playback system
21 Nov 23
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: 20 Oct 22
Utility
Associating playback devices with playback queues
21 Nov 23
An example first playback device includes programming to perform functions including receiving a first request to associate with a first playback queue that is stored remotely from, and persists unassociated with, any playback device of the media playback system.
Luis R. Vega-Zayas, Kristen Johansen, Paul Bates, Abhishek Kumar
Filed: 26 Oct 20
Utility
Remote playback queue
21 Nov 23
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
Dynamic earbud profile
21 Nov 23
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: 6 Jun 22
Utility
Media playback based on sensor data
21 Nov 23
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first network device and a second network device.
Jonathon Reilly, Niels Van Erven
Filed: 6 Dec 21
Utility
Media playback based on sensor data
21 Nov 23
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first network device and a second network device.
Jonathon Reilly, Niels Van Erven
Filed: 27 Apr 23
Utility
Playback Device
16 Nov 23
A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements.
Nicholas A.J. Millington
Filed: 23 Dec 22
Utility
Calibration State Variable
16 Nov 23
Example techniques involve a calibration state variable.
Dayn Wilberding, Neil Griffiths
Filed: 25 Jul 23
Utility
Communication based on operation mode
14 Nov 23
Embodiments are provided for utilizing communication routes based operation mode.
Hrishikesh Gossain
Filed: 23 Nov 20
Utility
Playback device using standby in a media playback system
14 Nov 23
Example embodiments involve a standby mode of a playback device.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Benjamin Ari Tober
Filed: 21 Dec 20
Utility
Dynamic computation of system response volume
14 Nov 23
Systems and methods disclosed herein include, determining that a requirement exists to output a system response.
Luis Vega-Zayas, Lucas Pylypczak, Rich Lean
Filed: 14 Nov 22
Utility
Multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation
14 Nov 23
A playback device is configured to: produce a first channel audio output of a first channel of audio content; produce a second channel audio output of a second channel of the audio content; receive captured audio content comprising (i) a first portion corresponding to the first channel audio output, (ii) a second portion corresponding to the second channel audio output, and (iii) a third portion corresponding to a voice command, wherein the captured audio content has a first signal-to-noise ratio; determine a set of signal components from at least one of the first channel or the second channel of the audio content; perform acoustic echo cancellation on a subset of signal components; determine an acoustic echo cancellation output; and apply the acoustic echo cancellation output to the captured audio content and thereby increase the first signal-to-noise ratio to a second signal-to-noise ratio that is greater than the first signal-to-noise ratio.
Saeed Bagheri Sereshki, Romi Kadri
Filed: 22 Dec 22
Utility
Networked microphone devices, systems, and methods of localized arbitration
14 Nov 23
A first playback device is configured to perform functions comprising: detecting sound, identifying a wake word based on the sound as detected by the first device, receiving an indication that a second playback device has also detected the sound and identified the wake word based on the sound as detected by the second device, after receiving the indication, evaluating which of the first and second devices is to extract sound data representing the sound and thereby determining that the extraction of the sound data is to be performed by the second device over the first device, in response to the determining, foregoing extraction of the sound data, receiving VAS response data that is indicative of a given VAS response corresponding to a given voice input identified in the sound data extracted by the second device, and based on the VAS response data, output the given VAS response.
John Tolomei, Klaus Hartung
Filed: 22 Dec 22