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US 2023/0403424 A1Published application
Wireless streaming of audio/visual content and systems and methods for multi-display user interactions
AssigneeSonos, Inc.
InventorsPaul Bates, Tadeo T. Toulis, Nicholas A.J. Millington
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are computing devices, including playback devices, that are configured to operate in several media distribution modes and play back audio data in several playback modes based at least in part on the source of audio/video data for playback. Also disclosed is a method of using a control device such as a mobile device as a secondary display to provide supplemental content to a user while viewing video content on a primary display such as a television.
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A method comprising:
- determining that a control device is in proximity to a video playback device, wherein the control device is separate from the video playback device;
- causing a graphical display of the control device to display a user interface (UI) for providing supplemental content;
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- based at least in part on media content being played back via the video playback device, automatically presenting, via the UI, supplemental content associated with the media content.
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A method comprising:
- determining that a first control device, associated with a first user profile, is in proximity to a video playback device, the video playback device playing back media content;
- causing, in response to determining that the first control device is in proximity to the video playback device, a graphical display of the first control device to display a first user interface (UI) including first supplemental content related to the media content, the first supplemental content based at least in part on the first user profile;
- determining that a second control device, associated with a second user profile, is in proximity to the video playback device;
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- causing, in response to determining that the second control device is in proximity to the video playback device, (i) a graphical display of the second control device to display a second UI including second supplemental content related to the media content, and (ii) the graphical display of the first control device to display the second supplemental content via the first UI, wherein the second supplemental content differs from the first supplemental content, and wherein the second supplement content is based at least in part on the first and second user profiles.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.