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Utility
Wireless radio switching
6 Jul 21
Examples are provided for establishing a bonded zone comprising a first playback device comprising a respective first wireless radio and a second playback device comprising a second respective wireless radio.
Jeffrey M. Peters, Gary Fox
Filed: 4 May 20
Utility
Determining and Adapting to Changes In Microphone Performance of Playback Devices
1 Jul 21
Systems and methods for determining and adapting to changes in microphone performance of playback devices are disclosed herein.
Kurt Thomas Soto, Connor Kristopher Smith, Roberto Maria Dizon, Patrick Kevin McPherson, Charles Conor Sleith
Filed: 12 Mar 21
Design
Display screen or portion thereof with transitional graphical user interface
29 Jun 21
Jodi Vautrin, Jennifer McDevitt, Daniel Valente
Filed: 12 Feb 19
Design
Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
29 Jun 21
Samuel Gates, Cameron Scott, Brandon Lynne, Eric Clayton, Andrew Mellors
Filed: 11 Nov 19
Utility
Grouping in a system with multiple media playback protocols
29 Jun 21
A network media system forms a group comprising a first networked device and a second networked device using a first media playback protocol.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Jeffrey Torgerson, Robert A. Lambourne
Filed: 20 Apr 20
Utility
Systems, Methods, Apparatus, and Articles of Manufacture to Provide Automatic Wireless Configuration
24 Jun 21
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide automated configuration of local playback devices and networks based on external input are disclosed.
Niels Van Erven, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson, Steven R. Beckhardt, Nicholas A.J. Millington
Filed: 7 Dec 20
Utility
Updating Playback Device Configuration Information Based on Calibration Data
24 Jun 21
An example computing device is configured to perform functions including receiving calibration data corresponding respectively to a plurality of playback devices, where each playback device in the plurality of playback devices is located in a respective playback environment other than a first playback environment.
Simon Jarvis, Klaus Hartung, Chris Davies, Tim Sheen
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Playback Device Calibration Based on Representative Spectral Characteristics
24 Jun 21
An example computing device is configured to perform functions including receiving a plurality of spectral data associated with a respective plurality of playback environments corresponding to a respective plurality of playback devices.
Klaus Hartung, Simon Jarvis, Tim Sheen, Chris Davies
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Offline Voice Control
24 Jun 21
As noted above, example techniques relate to offline voice control.
Connor Smith
Filed: 20 Dec 19
Utility
Networked Devices, Systems, & Methods for Intelligently Deactivating Wake-word Engines
24 Jun 21
In one aspect, a playback deice is configured to identify in an audio stream, via a second wake-word engine, a false wake word for a first wake-word engine that is configured to receive as input sound data based on sound detected by a microphone.
Connor Kristopher Smith, Charles Conor Sleith, Kurt Thomas Soto
Filed: 28 Dec 20
Utility
Fast-resume audio playback
22 Jun 21
A first zone player engages in synchronous playback of given audio content by obtaining the given audio content, generating and placing representative audio frames into a buffer, and transmitting the audio frames to a second zone player to play the given audio content in synchrony with the second zone player.
Luis Vega-Zayas, Ted Lin, Jim Dolan
Filed: 30 Sep 19
Utility
Group coordinator selection
22 Jun 21
A first playback device may include at least one battery, a network interface, at least one processor, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, and program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Gary Fox, Jeff Derderian, Jeffrey Peters
Filed: 14 Oct 19
Utility
Handling of loss of pairing between networked devices
22 Jun 21
Systems and methods disclosed herein include (i) receiving a voice command via at least one microphone of a networked microphone device, wherein the networked microphone device is configured to receive voice commands for a media playback system, and wherein the media playback system comprises the networked microphone device and a first playback device configured to play back content, (ii) determining that the networked microphone device is not configured to play back the content, (iii) in response to determining that the networked microphone is not configured to play back the content, determining that the first playback device is available to play back the content, (iv) causing the first playback device to play back the content, (v) determining that the first playback device is no longer available to play back the content, and (vi) selecting a second playback device to play back the content.
Mark Plagge, Simon Jarvis, Christopher Butts
Filed: 16 Dec 19
Utility
Audio Playback Network Joining
17 Jun 21
An example playback device includes programming for executing functions including, while connected to both (i) a local area network and (ii) an audio playback network configured separately from the local area network and arranged for playback of media content via at least the playback device, receiving from a network device via the local area network, a request for the network device to connect to the audio playback network.
Nicholas A.J. Millington, Jeffrey Peters, Michael Agerbak, Steven R. Beckhardt
Filed: 23 Nov 20
Utility
Playback Device Control
17 Jun 21
Examples described herein involve a playback device performing one or more playback device actions based on locations of one or more physical contacts on an external surface of the playback device.
Neil Griffiths, Chris Bierbower, Matt Nelson, Paul Kafadar
Filed: 21 Dec 20
Utility
Zone grouping
15 Jun 21
An example method involves causing a control device to display a graphical user interface that comprises an indication of a first zone of a media playback system, wherein the media playback system comprises the first zone and a second zone, and wherein the graphical user interface does not comprise an indication of the second zone.
Mark W. Triplett
Filed: 5 Jun 17
Utility
Audio track selection and playback
15 Jun 21
A playback device detects a first playback condition and a second playback condition related to an identified first user of a first media playback system.
Robert Reimann, David Taylor, Abhishek Kumar
Filed: 8 Jun 20
Utility
Queue versioning
15 Jun 21
Embodiments described herein may involve queue versioning.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 20 Feb 20
Design
Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
15 Jun 21
Brandon Lynne, Ryan Kitson
Filed: 4 Sep 19
Utility
Hybrid sniffing and rebroadcast for Bluetooth networks
15 Jun 21
Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof configured for hybrid sniffing and rebroadcast for networks, including Bluetooth networks.
Nicholas D'Amato
Filed: 6 Mar 20