Wireless media systems
AssigneeSonos, Inc.
InventorsKyle Hutchison, Jordy James Drennan Hamilton
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Abstract
A method for pairing a first wireless media device with a wireless audio device. The method comprising the steps of receiving a first advertising packet from the first wireless media device, establishing a first connection between a user device and the first wireless media device, transmitting a first identifier associated with the wireless audio device from the user device to the first wireless media device, establishing a second connection between the wireless audio device and the first wireless media device based on the identifier and terminating the first connection between the user device and the first wireless media device.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- at least one communication interface;
- at least one processor;
- at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium;
- and
- program instructions stored on the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium that are executable by the at least one processor such that the system is configured to:
- cause a wireless media device to transmit an advertising packet that includes a first physical location identifier associated with the wireless media device;
- based on the first physical location identifier and a second physical location identifier associated with a user of a user device that is communicatively coupled to a wireless audio device, establish a first connection between the wireless media device and the user device;
- cause the user device to transmit an audio device identifier associated with the wireless audio device to the wireless media device;
- based on the audio device identifier, establish a second connection between the wireless media device and the wireless audio device;
- terminate the first connection between the wireless media device and the user device;
- after terminating the first connection between the wireless media device and the user device, cause the wireless media device to begin transmitting, via the second connection, media content for playback by the wireless audio device;
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- play back, by the wireless audio device, the media content transmitted by the wireless media device.
At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium is provisioned with program instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a system to:
- cause a wireless media device to transmit an advertising packet that includes a first physical location identifier associated with the wireless media device;
- based on the first physical location identifier and a second physical location identifier associated with a user of a user device that is communicatively coupled to a wireless audio device, establish a first connection between the wireless media device and the user device;
- cause the user device to transmit an audio device identifier associated with the wireless audio device to the wireless media device;
- based on the audio device identifier, establish a second connection between the wireless media device and the wireless audio device;
- terminate the first connection between the wireless media device and the user device;
- after terminating the first connection between the wireless media device and the user device, cause the wireless media device to begin transmitting, via the second connection, media content for playback by the wireless audio device;
- and
- play back, by the wireless audio device, the media content transmitted by the wireless media device.
A method carried out by a system, the method comprising:
- causing a wireless media device to transmit an advertising packet that includes a first physical location identifier associated with the wireless media device;
- based on the first physical location identifier and a second physical location identifier associated with a user of a user device that is communicatively coupled to a wireless audio device, establishing a first connection between the wireless media device and the user device;
- causing the user device to transmit an audio device identifier associated with the wireless audio device to the wireless media device;
- based on the audio device identifier, establishing a second connection between the wireless media device and the wireless audio device;
- terminating the first connection between the wireless media device and the user device;
- after terminating the first connection between the wireless media device and the user device, causing the wireless media device to begin transmitting, via the second connection, media content for playback by the wireless audio device;
- and
- playing back, by the wireless audio device, the media content transmitted by the wireless media device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.