US 11,451,597 B2Granted

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AssigneeSonos, Inc.

InventorsKeith Corbin, Abhishek Kumar, Ron Kuper, Gregory Paul Ramsperger, Andrej Sarkic

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Abstract

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.

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Dependent claims

A computing device comprising:

at least one processor;
a graphical display;
non-transitory computer-readable medium;
and
program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium that are executable by the at least one processor such that the computing device is configured to:
operate as a control device of at least a first playback device of a first media playback system, wherein the first media playback system is configured for operation on a first local area network (LAN);
receive, via a wide area network (WAN), first playback data comprising an indication of first media content being played back by a second playback device of a second media playback system, wherein the second media playback system is configured for operation on a second LAN;
display, via the graphical display, a playback message comprising a selectable indication of the first playback data;
while displaying the playback message comprising the selectable indication of the first playback data, receive, via the WAN, second playback data comprising an indication of second media content being played back by the second playback device of the second media playback system;
based on receiving the second playback data, replace, within the playback message, the selectable indication of the first playback data with a selectable indication to indicate of the second playback data;
while displaying the playback message comprising the selectable indication of the second playback data, detect a selection of the selectable indication of the second playback data, wherein the selection indicates a command to cause at least the first playback device to begin playing back the second media content that is being played back by the second playback device;
and
based on the detected selection, cause at least the first playback device to begin playing back the second media content.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable medium is provisioned with program instructions that are executable by at least one processor such that a computing device is configured to:

operate as a control device of at least a first playback device of a first media playback system, wherein the first media playback system is configured for operation on a first local area network (LAN);
receive, via a wide area network (WAN), first playback data comprising an indication of first media content being played back by a second playback device of a second media playback system, wherein the second media playback system is configured for operation on a second LAN;
display, via the graphical display, a playback message comprising a selectable indication of the first playback data;
while displaying the playback message comprising the selectable indication of the first playback data, receive, via the WAN, second playback data comprising an indication of second media content being played back by the second playback device of the second media playback system;
based on receiving the second playback data, replace, within the playback message, the selectable indication of the first playback data with a selectable indication of the second playback data;
while displaying the playback message comprising the selectable indication of the second playback data, detect a selection of the selectable indication of the second playback data, wherein the selection indicates a command to cause at least the first playback device to begin playing back the second media content that is being played back by the second playback device;
and
based on the detected selection, cause at least the first playback device to begin playing back the second media content.

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A method carried out by a computing device, the method comprising:

operating as a control device of at least a first playback device of a first media playback system, wherein the first media playback system is configured for operation on a first local area network (LAN);
receiving, via a wide area network (WAN), first playback data comprising an indication of first media content being played back by a second playback device of a second media playback system, wherein the second media playback system is configured for operation on a second LAN;
displaying, via the graphical display, a playback message comprising a selectable indication of the first playback data;
while displaying the playback message comprising the selectable indication of the first playback data, receive, via the WAN, second playback data comprising an indication of second media content being played back by the second playback device of the second media playback system;
based on receiving the second playback data, replace, within the playback message, the selectable indication of the first playback data with a selectable indication of the second playback data;
while displaying the playback message comprising the selectable indication of the second playback data, detecting a selection of the selectable indication of the second playback data, wherein the selection indicates a command to cause at least the first playback device to begin playing back the second media content that is being played back by the second playback device;
and
based on the detected selection, causing at least the first playback device to begin playing back the second media content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/866,159Filed 4 May 2020 · continuation
Priority: 24 Sep 2014
Published: US 2020/0336521 A122 Oct 2020
Granted: 20 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G06Q 30/0263
Targeted advertisements: based upon Internet or website rating
G06Q 10/40
Administration; Management: business processes related to social networking or social networking services
H04L 65/61
Network streaming of media packets: for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
H04L 67/10
Protocols: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network

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Application14/495,633Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Sep 2014
US 2020/0336521 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Oct 2020
US 10,645,130 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2016/0088036 A1Published application
US 11,451,597 B2This patent

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