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Utility
Volume Interactions for Connected Playback Devices
23 Oct 19
Methods and systems are provided for volume interactions for connected playback devices.
Frank Marino, JR., Eduardo Ahumada Apodaca, Robert Andrew Lambourne
Filed: 5 May 19
Utility
Multiple Household Management
23 Oct 19
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: 30 Jun 19
Utility
Playback Devices Having Waveguides with Drainage Features
23 Oct 19
A playback device comprises an acoustic waveguide having a bounding surface, the bounding surface delimiting an opening.
Camille Zaba, Michael Chamness, Greg Flanagan, Garrett Gardner, Brandon Holley
Filed: 19 Apr 18
Utility
Audio Content Auditioning by Playback Device
23 Oct 19
A processor and memory comprising instructions stored therein executable by the processor to display a first media item available for playback, wherein the first media item is associated at least with a preview option, a playback option, and a queue option.
Paul Bates, Abhishek Kumar, Jonathan Lang
Filed: 30 Jun 19
Utility
Playback Device
23 Oct 19
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
Playback Device Volume Control
23 Oct 19
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
Synchronizing Operations Among a Plurality of Independently Clocked Digital Data Processing Devices
23 Oct 19
Example systems, apparatus, and methods receive audio information including a plurality of frames from a source device, wherein each frame of the plurality of frames includes one or more audio samples and a time stamp indicating when to play the one or more audio samples of the respective frame.
Nicholas A.J. Millington, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson
Filed: 30 Jun 19
Utility
Synchronizing Operations Among a Plurality of Independently Clocked Digital Data Processing Devices
23 Oct 19
Example systems, apparatus, and methods receive audio information including a plurality of frames from a source device, wherein each frame of the plurality of frames includes one or more audio samples and a time stamp indicating when to play the one or more audio samples of the respective frame.
Nicholas A.J. Millington, Michael Darrell Andrew Ericson
Filed: 1 Jul 19
Utility
Playlist Update Corresponding to Playback Queue Modification
23 Oct 19
Embodiments are provided for updating a playlist that has been added to a playback queue in response to changes to the playback queue.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Abhishek Kumar, Andrew J. Schulert
Filed: 1 Jul 19
Utility
Zone volume control
21 Oct 19
Example techniques involve controlling playback volumes of playback zones in a network media system.
Eduardo Ahumada Apodaca
Filed: 30 Oct 18
Utility
Playback queue control
21 Oct 19
Example techniques involve control of playback queues.
Robert Reimann, Abhishek Kumar, Paul Bates
Filed: 6 Mar 19
Utility
Lock screen media playback control
21 Oct 19
Embodiments are provided for providing on a display of a computing device, playback controls for a particular playback zone of a media playback system, while the computing device is in a locked state.
Paul Andrew Bates
Filed: 1 Nov 16
Utility
Software application and zones
21 Oct 19
Embodiments described herein relate to a software application that is configured to operate as an add-on software component to audio-playback software on a playback device of a media playback system.
Mark Triplett
Filed: 30 Oct 16
Utility
Prioritizing media content requests
21 Oct 19
Examples described herein may include a computing device receiving, from a first playback device, a request for first media content associated with a first playback operation.
Keith Corbin
Filed: 10 May 17
Utility
Smart music services preferences
21 Oct 19
In an example implementation, a method may involve detecting a trigger that suspends playback preference tracking of a media playback system, sending, to one or more media services registered with the media playback system, one or more requests to suspend playback preference tracking from when the trigger that suspends playback preference tracking was detected, detecting a particular trigger that resumes playback preference tracking of the media playback system, and based on detecting the particular trigger, sending, to at least one of the one or more media services registered to the media playback system, one or more requests to resume playback preference tracking of the media playback system.
Jonathan Lang
Filed: 15 Apr 18
Utility
Media playback system with virtual line-in
21 Oct 19
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
Filed: 30 Aug 18
Utility
Portable playback device state variable
21 Oct 19
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate playback of multimedia content are disclosed.
Mieko Kusano
Filed: 25 Sep 18
Utility
Queue identification
21 Oct 19
Example techniques relate to a playback device that facilitates queue identification.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV
Filed: 25 Feb 18
Utility
Zone group control
21 Oct 19
Method and systems are provided for detecting and handling, by a controller device, a loss of control of a playback queue of a zone group of a media playback system.
Arthur L. Coburn, IV, Sherwin Liu
Filed: 18 Mar 18
Utility
Playback based on number of listeners
21 Oct 19
Systems, methods, and apparatus to process audio signals based on a number of listeners are disclosed.
Jonathon Reilly, Niels Van Erven
Filed: 11 Aug 16