Default Playback Device Designation
AssigneeSonos, Inc.
InventorJonathan P. Lang
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Abstract
Systems and methods discussed herein involve designating a default playback device in a local playback network. One method may involve determining that a networked microphone device is available for assignment to one or more playback zones within a local playback network, displaying a prompt to indicate at least one playback zone to which the network microphone device is to be assigned, receiving an input indicating a particular playback zone in the local playback system to which the network microphone device is to be assigned, and storing data indicating an assignment of the network microphone device to the particular playback zone.
Claims20
A computing device comprising:
- a processor;
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- a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to perform functions comprising:
- determining that a playback device is available to be associated with one or more zone groups of a plurality of zone groups to serve as a default playback device for the one or more zone groups;
- causing a controller device to display a prompt to select, from the plurality of zone groups, at least one zone group to which the playback device is to be associated;
- after causing the controller device to display the prompt, receiving a user input indicating a selection of a particular zone group of the plurality of zone groups, wherein the particular zone group includes at least one network device;
- after receiving the user input, associating the playback device with the particular zone group such that the playback device serves as a default playback device of the particular zone group, wherein the associating comprises configuring the playback device to serve as the default playback device for voice inputs received via at least one network microphone device;
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- causing data to be stored indicating the associating of the playback device with the particular zone group.
A method comprising:
- determining, by a computing device, that a playback device is available to be associated with one or more zone groups of a plurality of zone groups to serve as a default playback device for the one or more zone groups;
- causing, by the computing device, a controller device to display a prompt to select, from the plurality of zone groups, at least one zone group to which the playback device is to be associated;
- after causing the controller device to display the prompt, receiving, by the computing device, a user input indicating a selection of a particular zone group of the plurality of zone groups, wherein the particular zone group includes at least one network device;
- after receiving the user input, associating, by the computing device, the playback device with the particular zone group such that the playback device serves as a default playback device of the particular zone group, wherein the associating comprises configuring the playback device to serve as the default playback device for voice inputs received via at least one network microphone device;
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- causing, by the computing device, data to be stored indicating the associating of the playback device with the particular zone group.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium that, when executed by a processor, cause a computing device to perform functions comprising:
- determining that a playback device is available to be associated with one or more zone groups of a plurality of zone groups to serve as a default playback device for the one or more zone groups;
- causing a controller device to display a prompt to select, from the plurality of zone groups, at least one zone group to which the playback device is to be associated;
- after causing the controller device to display the prompt, receiving a user input indicating a selection of a particular zone group of the plurality of zone groups, wherein the particular zone group includes at least one network device;
- after receiving the user input, associating the playback device with the particular zone group such that the playback device serves as a default playback device of the particular zone group, wherein the associating comprises configuring the playback device to serve as the default playback device for voice inputs received via at least one network microphone device;
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- causing data to be stored indicating the associating of the playback device with the particular zone group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.