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Utility
Volume Management in a Media Playback System
13 May 20
Example techniques may provide volume enhancements to a media playback system.
Jerome Agustin, Jonathan P. Lang, Mark W. Triplett
Filed: 12 Jan 20
Utility
Playback Device Connection
13 May 20
An example playback device includes programming to perform functions including detecting a triggering event that causes the playback device to transmit a first message indicating that the playback device is available for setup.
Nicholas A.J. Millington, Paul V. Hainsworth
Filed: 16 Jan 20
Design
Playback device
11 May 20
Roland Bird, Niels van Hoof
Filed: 12 Aug 14
Design
Playback device
11 May 20
Roland Bird, Niels van Hoof, Roger Swales, Mieko Kusano, Tadeo T. Toulis
Filed: 4 May 17
Utility
Interoperability of native media playback system with virtual line-in
11 May 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: 30 Aug 18
Utility
Antenna selection
11 May 20
A network device communicates with one or another set of antennas depending on an orientation of the network device.
Niels van Erven, Carlo van Niekerk, Michael Frey
Filed: 10 Jun 19
Utility
Group Coordinator Selection
6 May 20
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: 13 Oct 19
Utility
Playback updates
4 May 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: 23 Sep 14
Utility
Wireless radio switching
4 May 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: 5 May 19
Design
Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
27 Apr 20
Jan-Louis van Zyl, Agnes Won, Ryan Kitson
Filed: 24 Jun 19
Utility
Audio master selection
27 Apr 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
Social Network Account Assisted Service Registration
22 Apr 20
Examples involve a control device using a social networking service to facilitate registration of a streaming media service with a media playback system.
Andrej Sarkic, Danielle Storlie, Diane Roberts, Ron Kuper, Dayn Wilberding, Carl Fristrom
Filed: 19 Dec 19
Utility
Providing Aggregate Playback Information
22 Apr 20
System, method, and apparatus including receiving an identification of content played by a playback system and an identification of location of the playback system.
Mark Triplett, Jonathan P. Lang, Jonathon Reilly, David Taylor
Filed: 27 Oct 19
Utility
Multiple Stage Network Microphone Device with Reduced Power Consumption and Processing Load
22 Apr 20
Systems, methods, and devices with reduced power consumption in network microphone devices.
Nick D'Amato, Daniele Giacobello, Joachim Fainberg, Klaus Hartung
Filed: 22 Oct 18
Utility
Identification of audio content
20 Apr 20
An example implementation involves a playback device receiving digital data representing audio content, the digital data encoded in a first format.
Eric Clayton, Aurelio Rafael Ramos
Filed: 23 Jul 19
Utility
Grouping in a system with multiple media playback protocols
20 Apr 20
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: 9 Dec 18
Utility
Service Provider User Accounts
15 Apr 20
Examples described herein involve switching between two user accounts of a streaming media service.
Abhishek Kumar, Ron Kuper, Jason Kendall, Emilio Arce
Filed: 12 Dec 19
Utility
Distributed Synchronization
15 Apr 20
Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof to cause the playback devices in a group of playback devices to play audio content together in synchrony based on playback timing and clock timing, where the audio content and playback timing and the clock timing for use with playing the audio content according to the clock timing are provided by different playback devices in the group of playback devices.
Luis Vega Zayas, Ted M. Lin
Filed: 14 Oct 18
Utility
Portable Playback Device State Variable
15 Apr 20
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate playback of multimedia content are disclosed.
Mieko Kusano
Filed: 20 Oct 19
Utility
Handling of loss of pairing between networked devices
15 Apr 20
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: 15 Dec 19