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Utility
Sharing access to a media service
28 Sep 21
Examples provided herein are directed to a computing device and media playback system sharing access to a media service corresponding to a media application installed on the computing device.
Ron Kuper, Sherwin Liu, Emilio Arce, Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 27 Jan 20
Utility
Social media queue
28 Sep 21
Examples provided herein are directed to social-media playback queues.
Keith Corbin, Paul Kafadar, Abhishek Kumar, Ron Kuper, Gregory Paul Ramsperger, Andrej Sarkic
Filed: 15 May 17
Utility
Voice Detection Optimization Based on Selected Voice Assistant Service
23 Sep 21
Systems and methods for optimizing voice detection via a network microphone device (NMD) based on a selected voice-assistant service (VAS) are disclosed herein.
Connor Kristopher Smith, Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith
Filed: 7 Jun 21
Utility
Systems and Methods for State Detection via Wireless Radios
23 Sep 21
Systems and methods for localizing individuals in a region using wireless signals in accordance with embodiments are illustrated.
Niels van Erven, Connor Riley Northend
Filed: 17 Mar 21
Utility
Frequency Routing Based on Orientation
23 Sep 21
Systems, methods, and apparatus for frequency routing based on orientation are disclosed.
Christopher Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Jonathan P. Lang, Craig Wisneski, Jonathon Reilly, Seamus Daly, Todd Mansfield
Filed: 29 Mar 21
Utility
Seamless Transition of Source of Media Content
23 Sep 21
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: 22 Mar 21
Utility
Media Item Context in Social Media Posts
23 Sep 21
Example implementations may involve generating and displaying media items contexts related to media playback systems in social media posts.
Keith Corbin, Abhishek Kumar, Ron Kuper, Gregory Paul Ramsperger, Andrej Sarkic
Filed: 23 Nov 20
Utility
Activity Reset
23 Sep 21
In an example implementation, a method may involve sending a message that arranges a media playback system into a pre-defined state, wherein a first playback device is in a first zone having a first zone name, a second playback device is in a second zone having a second zone name, and a queue has a particular set of media items.
Joni R. Hoadley, Diane Roberts, Robert A. Lambourne
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Playback of Media Content According to Media Preferences
23 Sep 21
Example techniques involve playback of curated playlists based on media preferences.
Maarten van der Heide
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Queue Identification
23 Sep 21
Example techniques relate to a playback device that facilitates queue identification.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Design
Power plug
21 Sep 21
Mieko Kusano, Roland Bird, Niels van Hoof, Lukasz Natkaniec, Wilfred Wei
Filed: 27 Feb 19
Design
Media playback device
21 Sep 21
Dayn Wilberding, Nikolai Kutateladze, Stefan Reichert, Dana Krieger
Filed: 14 Feb 20
Utility
Portable playback device power management
21 Sep 21
Example techniques related to portable playback device power management.
Liang Chai, Xiang Wang, Brenda Stefani, Lyford Beverage, Jr., Allan Velzy, Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick, III
Filed: 7 Jun 19
Utility
Systems and methods for networked music playback
21 Sep 21
An example system is configured to (i) cause a client station to operate in a first mode in which the client station is configured for playback of a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system associated with a cloud-based media service, (ii) cause a zone player to take over playback responsibility for the remote playback queue, (iii) cause the zone player to (a) communicate with the cloud-based computing system to obtain data identifying a next one or more media items in the remote playback queue, (b) use the obtained data to retrieve at least one media item in the remote playback queue from the cloud-based media service, and (c) play back the retrieved at least one media item, and (iv) cause the client station to transition from the first mode to a second mode in which the client station is configured to control the zone player's playback of the remote playback queue.
Arthur Coburn, IV, Joni Rafalski Hoadley
Filed: 8 Jan 21
Utility
Media playback system control via cellular network
21 Sep 21
An example implementation involves a media playback system that includes one or more playback devices that are controllable by the mobile device while the mobile device is joined to the media playback system.
Andrew Schulert
Filed: 19 Sep 19
Utility
Indicating an Association Between a Social-Media Account and a Media Playback System
16 Sep 21
Examples disclosed herein include a social-media computing system receiving, from a first computing device, a first message indicating that a media playback system is associated with a first social-media account; and based on the received first message, sending, to a second computing device associated with a second social-media account, a second message indicating that the media playback system is associated with the first social-media account.
Jonathan Paul Lang
Filed: 22 Dec 20
Utility
Playback Device Supporting Concurrent Voice Assistants
16 Sep 21
Disclosed herein are example techniques to support multiple voice assistant services.
Dayn Wilberding
Filed: 23 Nov 20
Design
Media playback device
14 Sep 21
Youjin Nam, Stefan Reichert
Filed: 27 Jun 18
Utility
Transferring playback from a mobile device to a playback device
14 Sep 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
Voice assistant persistence across multiple network microphone devices
14 Sep 21
Systems and methods for maintaining voice assistant persistence across multiple network microphone devices are described.
Connor Kristopher Smith, Paul Bates
Filed: 3 May 19