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Utility
Multiple Household Management
28 Oct 20
Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for providing a management interface for controlling multiple households.
Ron Kuper, Arthur L. Coburn, IV, John Meyer, Mike Delaney
Filed: 8 Mar 20
Utility
Headphone Interaction with Media Playback System
28 Oct 20
Example techniques may involve headphone interaction.
Eric Clayton, Charles Alessi
Filed: 9 Apr 20
Utility
Dynamic Player Selection for Audio Signal Processing
28 Oct 20
In one aspect, a first playback device is configured to (i) receive a set of voice signals, (ii) process the set of voice signals using a first set of audio processing algorithms, (iii) identify, from the set of voice signals, at least two voice signals that are to be further processed, (iv) determine that the first playback device does not have a threshold amount of computational power available, (v) receive an indication of an available amount of computational power of a second playback device, (vi) send the at least two voice signals to the second playback device, (vii) cause the second playback device to process the at least two voice signals using a second set of audio processing algorithms, (viii) receive, from the second playback device, the processed at least two voice signals, and (ix) combine the processed at least two voice signals into a combined voice signal.
Shao-Fu Shih
Filed: 12 Jul 20
Utility
Cloud Queue Synchronization
28 Oct 20
Example techniques relate to cloud queue synchronization.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Steven Beckhardt, Andrew J. Schulert
Filed: 8 Mar 20
Utility
Share Restriction for Curated Playlists
28 Oct 20
Example techniques facilitate for applying a share restriction to a curated playlist within a shared playback queue.
Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 12 Apr 20
Design
Speaker stand
26 Oct 20
Dylan Entelis, Matthew Malone, Zachary Scott
Filed: 27 Sep 18
Utility
Home graph
26 Oct 20
Example techniques involve a control hierarchy for a “smart” home having smart appliances and related devices, such as wireless illumination devices, home-automation devices (e.g., thermostats, door locks, etc.), and audio playback devices, among others.
Robert Lambourne, Dayn Wilberding, Jeffrey Torgerson
Filed: 10 Dec 18
Utility
Associating playback devices with playback queues
26 Oct 20
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 Vega-Zayas, Kristen Johansen, Paul Bates, Abhishek Kumar
Filed: 6 Mar 19
Utility
Volume limit
26 Oct 20
An example playback device includes programming to perform functions including storing an active volume state variable in memory, where the active volume state variable corresponds to a current playback volume.
Chris Bierbower, Nicholas Maniskas
Filed: 22 May 19
Utility
Interoperability of Native Media Playback System with Virtual Line-in
21 Oct 20
Example systems and techniques disclosed herein facilitate interoperability between different media playback systems referred to herein as a virtual line-in (VLI) media playback system and a native playback system.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Chris Kotowski, Arvin Faruque
Filed: 10 May 20
Utility
Playback Updates
21 Oct 20
Embodiments are described herein that involve receiving, by a social-media computing system from a media playback system, playback data indicating media that is being played back by the media playback system, where the playback data comprises an indication of at least one zone of the media playback system in which the media is being played back; and based on the received playback data, updating social-media data in a social-media account, where the updated social-media data comprises an indication of the at least one zone in which the media is currently being played back.
Keith Corbin, Abhishek Kumar, Ron Kuper, Gregory Paul Ramsperger, Andrej Sarkic
Filed: 3 May 20
Utility
Wireless Radio Switching
21 Oct 20
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: 3 May 20
Utility
Contextual indexing of media items
19 Oct 20
Example techniques related to a sub-index of a media index.
Amber Brown, Diane Roberts
Filed: 1 Feb 20
Utility
Device grouping
19 Oct 20
An input at a physical interface of a first playback device is detected.
Mark Morganstern, Alec Ferguson
Filed: 14 Feb 19
Design
Power plug
19 Oct 20
Mieko Kusano, Roland Bird, Niels van Hoof, Lukasz Natkaniec, Wilfred Wei
Filed: 27 Oct 19
Utility
Manipulation of playback device response using signal processing
19 Oct 20
Example techniques involve balancing bass response of a multiple driver playback device.
Mike Chamness, Romi Kadri
Filed: 18 Aug 19
Utility
Voice detection optimization based on selected voice assistant service
19 Oct 20
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: 24 Sep 18
Utility
Dynamic Bonding of Playback Devices
14 Oct 20
Examples of dynamic bonding of playback devices are disclosed.
Mark Triplett, Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 22 Mar 20
Utility
Media Playback System with Concurrent Voice Assistance
14 Oct 20
Example techniques involve invoking voice assistance for a media playback system.
Dayn Wilberding, John Tolomei
Filed: 29 Mar 20
Utility
Methods and apparatus to manage zones of a multi-zone media playback system
12 Oct 20
Some embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods include displaying a graphical user interface comprising a first section and a second section, wherein the first section includes a first media icon corresponding to a first media item, and wherein the second section includes a first zone icon corresponding to a first zone comprising a first set of one or more playback devices; and in response to detecting a drag of the first media icon to the first zone icon, instructing at least one playback device in the first set of one or more playback devices to play the first media item corresponding to the first media icon.
Robert M. Reimann, Joni R. Hoadley
Filed: 12 Feb 19