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Utility
Spatial Antenna Diversity Techniques
12 Aug 21
Embodiments disclosed herein include headphone devices with spatially diverse antennas employing multiple operational modes and antenna switching policies.
Niels van Erven, Kasra Payandehjoo, Michael Frey, Anthony Maglio, Ron Roberts
Filed: 28 Apr 21
Design
Playback device
10 Aug 21
Roland Bird, Niels van Hoof, Roger Swales, Mieko Kusano, Tadeo T. Toulis, Maximillian Burton, Stefan Reichert
Filed: 5 May 17
Utility
Systems and methods for podcast playback
10 Aug 21
Systems and methods for podcast playback in a system including a playback device and a mobile device as a system controller are disclosed.
Marisa McKently, Brandon Lynne, Ryan Kitson
Filed: 13 Feb 19
Utility
Local Voice Data Processing
5 Aug 21
Example techniques relate to local voice control in a media playback system.
Sebastien Maury, Jo Dureau, Thibaut Lorrain, Do Kyun Kim
Filed: 31 Jan 21
Utility
Voice Control of a Media Playback System
5 Aug 21
An example system is configured to cause a first playback device in a first playback zone to operate in a given playback state including play back of media items identified in a playback queue associated with the first playback zone.
Nicholas A.J. Millington, Keith Corbin, Mark Plagge
Filed: 21 Apr 21
Utility
Methods and Apparatus for Direct Routing Between Nodes of Networks
5 Aug 21
A network interface of a first computing device is configured to operate according to a bridge table.
Jeffrey M. Peters, Steven Beckhardt, Hrishikesh Gossain, Nicholas A.J. Millington
Filed: 11 Jan 21
Utility
Multiple-device setup
3 Aug 21
An example implementation may involve a media playback system detecting two or more playback devices of a given type.
Sein Woo, Liesbeth van den Berg, Roy Pollock
Filed: 24 May 19
Utility
Concurrent transmission and playback of audio information
3 Aug 21
In a network comprising a plurality of synchrony groups, including at least a first synchrony group and a second synchrony group, wherein a first zone player is a member of the first synchrony group and a second zone player is a member of the second synchrony group, a method comprising: transmitting, by the first zone player while the first zone player is playing a first audio information, a second audio information to the second zone player, wherein the second audio information is different from the first audio information; and playing, by the second synchrony group, the second audio information while the first synchrony group is playing the first audio information.
Nicholas A. J. Millington
Filed: 17 Apr 13
Utility
Dynamic computation of system response volume
3 Aug 21
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 Oct 19
Utility
Command dial in a media playback system
3 Aug 21
Embodiments are described herein that provide a dedicated command device that is bonded to a zone player or zone to perform adjustments to the zone player or zone.
Stefan Reichert, David John McCaffree Amaranto
Filed: 2 Mar 20
Utility
Dynamic display of filter criteria
3 Aug 21
Example techniques involve a dynamic display of filter criteria on a control device.
Abhishek Kumar, Robert A. Lambourne, Paul Bates
Filed: 17 Feb 20
Utility
Multi-channel pairing in a media system
3 Aug 21
Systems and methods for output of audio content are disclosed.
Christopher Kallai, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Robert A. Lambourne, Robert Reimann, Mark Triplett
Filed: 13 Jan 17
Utility
Do not disturb feature for audio notifications
27 Jul 21
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: 31 Oct 18
Utility
Grouped zones in a system with multiple media playback protocols
27 Jul 21
A first networked device may perform operations including receiving, from a media source device, a media stream.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 25 Sep 17
Utility
Headphone interaction with media playback system
27 Jul 21
Example techniques may involve headphone interaction.
Eric Clayton, Charles Alessi
Filed: 10 Apr 20
Utility
Smart audio settings
27 Jul 21
Embodiments described herein provide for smart configuration of audio settings for a playback device.
Jonathan P. Lang
Filed: 7 Oct 19
Utility
Network Microphone Devices with Automatic Do Not Disturb Actuation Capabilities
22 Jul 21
Embodiments disclosed herein include networked microphone devices (NMD) determining whether a Do Not Disturb (DND) feature should be activated, in response to determining that the DND feature should be activated, activating the DND feature.
Sein Woo, Ryan Myers, Charles Freedman
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Synchronization of Content Between Networked Devices
22 Jul 21
A control device of media playback system receives a user command to initiate playback of video content and associated audio content and transmits a BLUETOOTH message based on the command to a video playback device.
Lee Keyser-Allen, Thomas Higdon, Luis Vega-Zayas, Ted Lin, Andrej Sarkic
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Playback Session Transitions Across Different Platforms
22 Jul 21
As noted above, example techniques relate to playback transitions between platforms.
Dinesh Kannan
Filed: 17 Jan 20
Utility
Webpage Media Playback
22 Jul 21
Examples described herein involve facilitating playback of media content via a webpage.
Ted M. Lin, Eric M. Bass
Filed: 31 Aug 20