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Utility
Facilitating the resolution of address conflicts in a networked media playback system
7 Sep 20
Examples are disclosed and described to facilitate resolution of Internet Protocol address conflicts.
Hrishikesh Gossain, Jose Graziani, Jeffrey M. Peters, Michael Agerbak
Filed: 1 Apr 18
Utility
Acoustic signatures in a playback system
7 Sep 20
Embodiments described herein provide for acoustic signatures in a playback system.
Robert Reimann
Filed: 12 Aug 18
Utility
Playback device calibration
7 Sep 20
An indication of an acoustic characteristic of a playback device may comprise an orientation of the playback device with respect to an axis of a sensor of the playback device.
Neil Griffiths, Mike Chamness
Filed: 7 Oct 18
Utility
Mirrored Queues
2 Sep 20
Embodiments disclosed herein involve a first playback device, associated with a first household, where the first playback device is configured to mirror a playback queue that is associated with a second playback device, where the second playback device is associated with a second household.
Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 8 Mar 20
Utility
Playback Transitions
2 Sep 20
Examples described herein relate to transitioning a playback session between portable playback devices such as “smart” headphones, earbuds, and handheld speakers with playback devices of a zone-based media playback system.
Dayn Wilberding, Youjin Nam, Tadeo T. Toulis, Cole Harris, Patrick Devine, Nicholas A.J. Millington, Jason Yore, Maria-Jose Ramos, Richard Bannon, Michael Sheldon, Ted Lin, Ron Kuper
Filed: 27 Feb 20
Utility
Playback modification based on proximity
31 Aug 20
Techniques described herein may involve modification of playback based on the proximity of a user to a playback device.
Luis Vega, Paul Bates, Jason Kendall
Filed: 14 Apr 19
Utility
Capacitive proximity sensor configuration including a conductive speaker grille
31 Aug 20
Example techniques involve a speaker grille of a playback device that is connectable to a capacitive proximity sensor, which may increase the area over which an object's proximity to the sensor can be sensed.
Thomas Calatayud
Filed: 18 Sep 16
Utility
Media sharing across service providers
31 Aug 20
Embodiments including methods and apparatus to share file and file recommendations are disclosed.
Ron Kuper, Joni Hoadley
Filed: 25 Sep 18
Utility
Webpage media playback
31 Aug 20
Examples described herein involve facilitating playback of media content via a webpage.
Ted M. Lin, Eric M. Bass
Filed: 1 Jun 17
Utility
Voice control of a media playback system
31 Aug 20
Multiple aspects of systems and methods for voice control and related features and functionality for various embodiments of media playback devices, networked microphone devices, microphone-equipped media playback devices, and speaker-equipped networked microphone devices are disclosed and described herein, including but not limited to designating and managing default networked devices, audio response playback, room-corrected voice detection, content mixing, music service selection, metadata exchange between networked playback systems and networked microphone systems, handling loss of pairing between networked devices, actions based on user identification, and other voice control of networked devices.
Jonathan P. Lang, Mark Plagge, Simon Jarvis, Romi Kadri, Yean-Nian Willy Chen, Paul Andrew Bates, Luis Vega-Zayas, Christopher Butts, Nicholas A. J. Millington, Keith Corbin
Filed: 1 Dec 19
Utility
Playback device volume control
24 Aug 20
A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements.
Nicholas A. J. Millington
Filed: 30 Jun 19
Utility
Audio master selection
24 Aug 20
A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements.
Nicholas A. J. Millington
Filed: 16 Jul 19
Utility
Mood detection and/or influence via audio playback devices
24 Aug 20
In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a first signal indicative of a current emotional state of a user, receiving a second signal corresponding to a desired emotional state of the user, and based on the first and second signals, generating a playlist of media content including a first item and an nth item.
Phoebe K. Piercy, Nicholas D'Amato
Filed: 22 Sep 19
Utility
Systems and methods for networked music playback
24 Aug 20
An example zone player is configured to play back a first media item identified in a remote playback queue provided by a computing system that is communicatively coupled to the zone player via at least a cloud-based network.
Arthur Coburn, IV, Joni Rafalski Hoadley
Filed: 22 Aug 19
Utility
Systems and methods for controlling playback and other features of a wireless headphone
24 Aug 20
Wireless headphones with user controls and methods for using are disclosed.
Jodi Vautrin, Aki Laine, Dana Krieger, Philippe Vossel, Vincent Shyu
Filed: 24 Sep 19
Design
Wall mount for an audio device
17 Aug 20
Aki Laine, Edward Mitchell, Philippe Vossel
Filed: 27 Oct 19
Utility
Continuous playback queue
17 Aug 20
Embodiments are described herein that involve a media playback system playing back a playback queue according to a continuous-playback mode.
Keith Corbin
Filed: 28 Mar 18
Utility
Distributed provisioning of properties of operational settings of a media playback system
17 Aug 20
Devices, system, and methods are disclosed for provisioning devices over a cloud network in accordance with modifications to operational settings of a media playback system.
Keith Thoresz, Daniel Casimiro, Sachin Lad, Steven Beckhardt
Filed: 8 Jul 18
Utility
Playback device
17 Aug 20
A system is described for maintaining synchrony of operations among a plurality of devices that have independent clocking arrangements.
Nicholas A. J. Millington
Filed: 19 Aug 19
Utility
Mobile source media content access
17 Aug 20
Embodiments are provided for replacing media items in a queue of a playback device.
Paul Andrew Bates, Steven Beckhardt, Jonathon Reilly
Filed: 25 Sep 18