Multiple-Device Setup
AssigneeSonos, Inc.
InventorsSein Woo, Liesbeth van den Berg, Roy Pollock
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Abstract
An example implementation may involve a media playback system detecting two or more playback devices of a given type. The implementation may further involve transmitting, to a particular playback device of the detected playback devices, an instruction that causes the particular playback device to emit a given sound. The implementation may also involve receiving an identification of the particular playback device and displaying, via a graphical interface, one or more prompts to join the particular playback device into the media playback system.
Claims20
A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause a control device to perform a method comprising:
- detecting a particular playback device;
- after detecting the particular playback device, transmitting an instruction that causes the particular playback device to emit one or more sounds;
- displaying, via a graphical interface, a prompt to identify the particular playback device by pressing a given button on the particular playback device that is emitting the one or more sounds;
- and
- receiving an identification of the particular playback device, wherein receiving the identification of the particular playback device comprises receiving a message from the particular playback device indicating that the particular playback device was identified.
A method comprising:
- detecting, via a control device, a particular playback device;
- after detecting the particular playback device, transmitting an instruction that causes the particular playback device to emit one or more sounds;
- displaying, via a graphical interface, a prompt to identify the particular playback device by pressing a given button on the particular playback device that is emitting the one or more sounds;
- and
- receiving an identification of the particular playback device, wherein receiving the identification of the particular playback device comprises receiving a message from the particular playback device indicating that the particular playback device was identified.
A control device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- tangible, non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the control device to perform a method comprising:
- detecting a particular playback device;
- after detecting the particular playback device, transmitting an instruction that causes the particular playback device to emit one or more sounds;
- displaying, via a graphical interface, a prompt to identify the particular playback device by pressing a given button on the particular playback device that is emitting the one or more sounds;
- and
- receiving an identification of the particular playback device, wherein receiving the identification of the particular playback device comprises receiving a message from the particular playback device indicating that the particular playback device was identified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.