Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Transferring playback from a mobile device to a playback device
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Application No.: US17127989Application Date: 2020-12-18
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Publication No.: US11620332B2Publication Date: 2023-04-04
- Inventor: Abhishek Kumar , Andrew Schulert , Robert Andrew Lambourne , Arthur L. Coburn, IV
- Applicant: SONOS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Assignee: SONOS, INC.
- Current Assignee: SONOS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Barbara
- Main IPC: G06F16/638
- IPC: G06F16/638 ; G06F3/16 ; G06F16/438 ; H04L29/06 ; G11B27/10 ; H04N21/262 ; H04N21/414 ; H04N21/436 ; H04N21/81 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/28 ; G06F3/0482 ; G06F16/28 ; G06F16/64 ; H04L65/1069 ; H04L67/10

Abstract:
A network device is configured to (i) play back a media item indicated by a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system, (ii) receive an indication that a playback device is available for playback, (iii) display a now playing screen including (a) information identifying the media item, and (b) an icon that indicates that the network device is not in a connected state with any other network device, (iv) receive a first input selecting the icon, (v) in response to the first input, display a list of one or more available network devices including the playback device, (vi) receive a second input selecting the playback device from the list (vii) after receiving the second input, update the list to indicate that the playback device is selected for playback of the remote playback queue, and (viii) transfer playback of the remote playback queue from the network device to the playback device.
Public/Granted literature
- US11687586B2 Transferring playback from a mobile device to a playback device Public/Granted day:2023-06-27
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