Group Coordinator Device Selection
AssigneeSonos, Inc.
InventorHrishikesh GOSSAIN
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Abstract
Embodiments described herein involve selecting a group coordinator device for a group of media devices of a networked media playback system. One of the media devices in the networked media playback system may be a group coordinator device configured to provide media content and playback timing information to other media devices in the group for synchronized playback of media content. Selection of the group coordinator device may involve performing an evaluation of one or more parameters associated with each of the one or more media devices in the media playback system, determining that a particular media device is the most suitable group coordinator devices, and causing the particular media device to become the group coordinator device.
Claims20
In a media playback system comprising a plurality of devices, a method comprising:
- performing, by a device, an evaluation of one or more parameters associated with one or more of the plurality of devices;
- based on the evaluation, determining, by the device, that a second device is to be a group coordinator for a group, wherein the group coordinator provides audio content data and audio content playback timing information to devices in the group;
- and
- causing, by the device, the second device to become the group coordinator of the group.
A network device in a media playback system comprising a plurality of devices, the network device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory having stored thereon instructions executable by the processor to cause the network device to perform functions comprising:
- performing an evaluation of one or more parameters associated with one or more of the plurality of devices;
- based on the evaluation, determining that a second device is to be a group coordinator for a group, wherein the group coordinator provides audio content data and audio content playback timing information to devices in the group;
- and
- causing the second device to become the group coordinator of the group.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions executable by a computing device in communication with a media playback system comprising a plurality of devices, wherein the instructions are executable by the computing device to cause the computing device to perform functions comprising:
- performing an evaluation of one or more parameters associated with one or more of the plurality of devices;
- based on the evaluation, determining that a second device is to be a group coordinator for a group, wherein the group coordinator provides audio content data and audio content playback timing information to devices in the group;
- and
- causing the second device to become the group coordinator of the group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.