US 2020/0050425 A1Published application

Smart Music Services Preferences

AssigneeSonos, Inc.

InventorJonathan Lang

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Abstract

In an example implementation, a computing device including at least one processor; a non-transitory computer-readable medium; and program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium that are executable by the at least one processor such that the computing device is configured to (i) begin transmission of playback preference tracking information to one or more media services registered with a media playback system; (ii) detect that a zone scene has been invoked such that at least two zone players are configured for synchronous playback of media; (iii) based on the detection that the zone scene has been invoked, suspend the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services; (iv) detect that the at least two zone players are no longer configured for synchronous playback of media; and (v) resume the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computing device comprising:

at least one processor;
a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
and
program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium that are executable by the at least one processor such that the computing device is configured to:
begin transmission of playback preference tracking information to one or more media services registered with a media playback system, wherein the media playback system includes at least two zone players that have been selected for inclusion in a zone scene comprising a predefined grouping of zone players that are to be configured for synchronous playback of media when the zone scene is invoked;
detect that the zone scene has been invoked such that the at least two zone players are configured for synchronous playback of media;
based on the detection that the zone scene has been invoked, suspend the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services;
after suspending the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services, detect that the at least two zone players are no longer configured for synchronous playback of media;
and
after detecting that the at least two zone players are no longer configured for synchronous playback of media, resume the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium;

and
program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium that are executable by at least one processor such that a computing device is configured to:
begin transmission of playback preference tracking information to one or more media services registered with a media playback system, wherein the media playback system includes at least two zone players that have been selected for inclusion in a zone scene comprising a predefined grouping of zone players that are to be configured for synchronous playback of media when the zone scene is invoked;
detect that the zone scene has been invoked such that the at least two zone players are configured for synchronous playback of media;
based on the detection that the zone scene has been invoked, suspend the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services;
after suspending the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services, detect that the at least two zone players are no longer configured for synchronous playback of media;
and
after detecting that the at least two zone players are no longer configured for synchronous playback of media, resume the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services.

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A method comprising:

beginning, by a computing device, transmission of playback preference tracking information to one or more media services registered with a media playback system, wherein the media playback system includes at least two zone players that have been selected for inclusion in a zone scene comprising a predefined grouping of zone players that are to be configured for synchronous playback of media when the zone scene is invoked;
detecting, by the computing device, that the zone scene has been invoked such that the at least two zone players are configured for synchronous playback of media;
based on the detection that the zone scene has been invoked, suspending, by the computing device, the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services;
after suspending the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services, detecting, by the computing device, that the at least two zone players are no longer configured for synchronous playback of media;
and
after detecting that the at least two zone players are no longer configured for synchronous playback of media, resuming, by the computing device, the transmission of the playback preference tracking information to the one or more media services.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/659,106Filed 21 Oct 2019
Priority: 30 Sep 2015
Published: 13 Feb 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification2 codes

G06F 3/165
Sound input; Sound output: management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
G06F
Computing and data processing

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