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Utility
Service provider user accounts
2 Nov 21
Examples described herein involve switching between two user accounts of a streaming media service.
Abhishek Kumar, Ron Kuper, Jason Kendall, Emilio Arce
Filed: 13 Dec 19
Utility
Adjusting Volume Levels
28 Oct 21
Techniques for controlling zone group and zone group characteristics such as audio volume in a multi-zone system are disclosed.
Robert A. Lambourne, Nicholas A.J. Millington
Filed: 7 Apr 21
Utility
Playback Device with Device Base
28 Oct 21
Example techniques relate to changing a playback device mode based on a device base.
Jonathan P. Lang, Christopher D. Butts
Filed: 12 Apr 21
Utility
Device Impairment Detection
28 Oct 21
Examples described herein involve detecting known environmental conditions of using a neural network.
Klaus Hartung, Greg Bright
Filed: 10 May 21
Utility
Network Topology Based on a Useful Wired Connection
28 Oct 21
A computing device may broadcast a first message via a wireless interface while operating according to a first network topology.
Jeffrey M. Peters, Nicholas A.J. Millington, Jose Graziani, Ted Lin
Filed: 10 May 21
Design
Playback device
26 Oct 21
Stefan Reichert, Mieko Kusano, Roland Bird, Roger Swales, Niels van Hoof, Lukasz Natkaniec, Dana Krieger, Tadeo T. Toulis, Mike Chamness, Hilmar Lehnert, Wilfred Wei, Wei Hean Liew
Filed: 19 Mar 18
Utility
Power control based on packet type
26 Oct 21
Techniques for controlling one or more audio amplifiers in or associated with a device coupled on a local area network are disclosed.
Steve F. Holmgren, John L. MacFarlane
Filed: 5 Aug 19
Utility
Transferring playback from a mobile device to a playback device
26 Oct 21
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
Sound bar to provide information associated with a media item
26 Oct 21
Example techniques relate to a soundbar that provides information associated with a media item.
Ron Kuper
Filed: 13 Nov 19
Utility
Optimization of network microphone devices using noise classification
26 Oct 21
Systems and methods for optimizing network microphone devices using noise classification are disclosed herein.
Kurt Thomas Soto
Filed: 10 Mar 20
Utility
Grouping In a System with Multiple Media Playback Protocols
21 Oct 21
While a first playback device is a member of a synchronous media playback group with a second playback device using a first media playback protocol, and after a particular playback setting is enabled using the first media playback protocol, the first playback device receives, from a media source device, a first media stream using a second media playback protocol.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Jeffrey Torgerson, Robert A. Lambourne
Filed: 28 Jun 21
Utility
Priority Media Content
21 Oct 21
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
Counterpart Media Items
21 Oct 21
An example method includes maintaining a playlist of media items for playback by one or more playback devices and, for a given media item in the playlist, maintaining, as part of the playlist, a packet that includes the given media item and a set of one or more counterpart media items that each correspond to the given media item.
Ryan Taylor, Brendon P. Cassidy
Filed: 20 Apr 21
Utility
Techniques for Clock Rate Synchronization
21 Oct 21
Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof, wherein individual playback devices are configured to detect and correct clock rate drift by synchronizing a clock rate and perhaps clock time of a local clock to a remote time source.
Timothy Sheen, Steven Bechardt, Jeffrey Peters
Filed: 16 Apr 21
Utility
Cable Retraction Mechanism for Headphone Devices
21 Oct 21
An example headphone device includes a first earpiece and a second earpiece, each earpiece including a respective antenna at least partially disposed within the earpiece.
Dieter Rapitsch, Patrice Billaudet
Filed: 19 Apr 21
Utility
Audio Response Playback
21 Oct 21
A computing device is configured to perform functions comprising: receiving via a network microphone device of a media playback system, a voice command detected by at least one microphone of the network microphone device, wherein the media playback system comprises a plurality of zones, and the network microphone device may be a member of a default playback zone.
Jonathan P. Lang, Mark Plagge
Filed: 5 Apr 21
Utility
Management of Media Content Playback
21 Oct 21
Example techniques may involve managing playback of media content by a playback device.
Yean-Nian W. Chen
Filed: 5 Apr 21
Design
Charger
19 Oct 21
Bridget Hunter-Jones, Jonathan S. Cotter, Chadwick James Souza, Matthew Malone
Filed: 11 Dec 19
Utility
Playback device demonstration
19 Oct 21
A playback device may be communicatively connected to a network device at a demonstration location.
Jonathon Reilly, Jason Heffernan, Andrej Sarkic, Zivthan Dubrovsky, Luis Vega-Zayas, Nicholas Salzman, Adrian Eiben
Filed: 30 Dec 19
Utility
Playback based on acoustic signals
19 Oct 21
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first playback device and a second playback device.
Jonathon Reilly, Niels Van Erven
Filed: 24 Jun 21