US 10,853,023 B2Granted

Networked playback device

AssigneeSonos, Inc.

InventorsNicholas A. J. Millington, Tom Cullen, Robert Reimann, Brent Lehman

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Abstract

An example playback device includes a first interface for receiving a first audio signal from a first audio source; a second interface for receiving a second audio signal from a second audio source; and a processor configured to: cause the playback device to playback the second audio signal; determine that the first audio signal is present at the first interface; in response to determining that the first audio signal is present at the first interface, (i) cease playback of the second audio signal being played by the playback device and (ii) cause the playback device to playback the first audio signal; receive an instruction to stop the playback device from playing the first audio signal while the first audio signal is still present at the first interface; and arm the playback device such that a subsequent presence of the first audio signal at the first interface causes the playback device to play the first audio signal.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A playback device comprising:

one or more processors;
and
tangible, non-transitory computer readable memory comprising instructions stored therein, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the playback device to perform a method comprising:
arming the playback device so that receipt of a first type of media content preempts playback of a second type of media content;
after arming the playback device, playing the second type of media content;
while playing the second type of media content, determining that the playback device is receiving the first type of media content via a line-in connector;
in response to determining that playback device is receiving the first type of media content, ceasing playback of the second type of media content and playing the first type of media content;
determining that the playback device is no longer receiving the first type of media content;
and
in response to determining that the playback device is no longer receiving the first type of media content, ceasing playback of the first type of media content and rearming the playback device so that subsequent receipt of the first type of media content preempts playback of the second type of media content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/166,518Filed 22 Oct 2018 · continuation
Priority: 18 Apr 2011
Published: US 2019/0121604 A125 Apr 2019
Granted: 1 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G06F 3/165
Sound input; Sound output: management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
G06F 3/162
Sound input; Sound output: interface to dedicated audio devices, e.g. audio drivers, interface to CODECs
G11B 27/10
Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel: indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising;…
H02B 1/00
Frameworks, boards, panels, desks, casings

Family

Application13/089,167Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Apr 2011
Application14/561,421Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Dec 2014
US 8,938,312 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Jan 2015
Application14/628,999Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Feb 2015
Application15/583,553Parent of this continuation · filed 1 May 2017
US 9,681,223 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Jun 2017
US 9,686,606 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Jun 2017
US 2019/0121604 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 Apr 2019
US 10,108,393 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2012/0263318 A1Published application
US 2015/0086045 A1Published application
US 2015/0172809 A1Published application
US 2017/0235545 A1Published application
US 10,853,023 B2This patent

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