Enabling components of a playback device
AssigneeSonos, Inc.
InventorsHrishikesh Gossain, Benjamin Ari Tober
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Abstract
An example implementation involves a first playback device maintaining a list of MAC addresses. While one or more components of the first playback device are disabled, the first playback device may receive a data packet that comprises a payload associated with a MAC address. The MAC address may correspond to a network interface of a second playback device. The first playback device may identify the MAC address in the list of MAC addresses, and based on identifying the MAC address in the list of MAC addresses, enable at least one of the one or more components of the first playback device.
Claims20
A first playback device comprising:
- at least one processor;
- an audio amplifier;
- at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium;
- and
- program instructions stored on the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the first playback device to:
- operate in a first mode in which the audio amplifier consumes less power than when operating in a second mode;
- while operating in the first mode, receive a first wake-up packet;
- based on the first wake-up packet, cease operating in the first mode and begin operating in the second mode, in which the audio amplifier consumes more power than when operating in the first mode;
- receive audio content that is to be played back in synchrony by the first playback device and at least one other playback device;
- cause a second wake-up packet to be sent to a second playback device that is operating in the first mode and thereby cause the second playback device to cease operating in the first mode and begin operating in the second mode, wherein a respective audio amplifier of the second playback device consumes less power while the second playback device is operating in the first mode than when operating in the second mode;
- begin transmitting the audio content to the second playback device;
- play back the audio content in synchrony with the second playback device;
- and
- after transmitting the audio content to the second playback device, cease operating in the second mode and begin operating in the first mode.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable medium is provisioned with program instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a first playback device to:
- operate in a first mode in which an audio amplifier of the first playback device consumes less power than when operating in a second mode;
- while operating in the first mode, receive a first wake-up packet;
- based on the first wake-up packet, cease operating in the first mode and begin operating in the second mode, in which the audio amplifier consumes more power than when operating in the first mode;
- receive audio content that is to be played back in synchrony by the first playback device and at least one other playback device;
- cause a second wake-up packet to be sent to a second playback device that is operating in the first mode and thereby cause the second playback device to cease operating in the first mode and begin operating in the second mode, wherein a respective audio amplifier of the second playback device consumes less power while the second playback device is operating in the first mode than when operating in the second mode;
- begin transmitting the audio content to the second playback device;
- play back the audio content in synchrony with the second playback device;
- and
- after transmitting the audio content to the second playback device, cease operating in the second mode and begin operating in the first mode.
A method carried out by a first playback device, the method comprising:
- operating in a first mode in which an audio amplifier of the first playback device consumes less power than when operating in a second mode;
- while operating in the first mode, receiving a first wake-up packet;
- based on the first wake-up packet, ceasing to operate in the first mode and beginning to operate in the second mode, in which the audio amplifier consumes more power than when operating in the first mode;
- receiving audio content that is to be played back in synchrony by the first playback device and at least one other playback device;
- causing a second wake-up packet to be sent to a second playback device that is operating in the first mode and thereby causing the second playback device to cease operating in the first mode and begin operating in the second mode, wherein a respective audio amplifier of the second playback device consumes less power while the second playback device is operating in the first mode than when operating in the second mode;
- beginning to transmit the audio content to the second playback device;
- playing back the audio content in synchrony with the second playback device;
- and
- after transmitting the audio content to the second playback device, ceasing to operate in the second mode and beginning to operate in the first mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.