US 10,097,893 B2 · Media experience social interface

Abstract

Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for providing a social interface for sharing media experience information between households in a community. Users of different households may form the community. The social interface may be provided as an application on a mobile device or an Internet webpage as a portal to the community. An example implementation involves a device displaying representations of: a plurality of households; an indication of a selected household; one or more zones within the selected household; and a representation of media being played by a selected zone of the one or more zones. While displaying the representations, the device receives, from a server, data indicating updated information associated with the plurality of households; and, in response, updates the graphical display to display at least an updated representation of media being played by the selected zone.

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A computing device comprising:

a graphical display;
one or more processors;
and
a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to perform functions comprising:
displaying, on the graphical display, representations comprising:
(i) representations of a plurality of households, (ii) an indication of a selected household among the representation of the plurality of households, (iii) representations of one or more zones within the selected household, and (iv) a representation of media being played by a selected zone of the one or more zones;
while displaying the representations, receiving from a server, data indicating updated information associated with the plurality of households;
and
in response to receiving the data indicating updated information associated with the plurality of households, updating the graphical display to display at least an updated representation of media being played by the selected zone based on the received updated information associated with the plurality of households.

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A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a computing device to perform functions comprising:

displaying on a graphical display, representations comprising:
(i) representations of a plurality of households, (ii) an indication of a selected household among the representation of the plurality of households, (iii) representations of one or more zones within the selected household, and (iv) a representation of media being rendered by a selected zone of the one or more zones;
while displaying the representations, receiving from a server, data indicating updated information associated with the plurality of households;
and
in response to receiving the data indicating updated information associated with the plurality of households, updating the graphical display to display at least an updated representation of media being played by the selected zone based on the received updated information associated with the plurality of households.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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