Sonos, Inc.

Cliq Products, Inc.

Mieko Kusano

Roland Bird

Niels Van Hoof

Wai-Loong Lim

Lukasz Natkaniec

Wilfred Wei

Roger Swales

Tadeo T Toulis

Hilmar Lehnert

Stefan Reichert

Mike Chamness

Wei Hean Liew

Dana Krieger

Jonathon Reilly

Gregory B Burlingame

Adrian Sesto

Ernesto Figueira

Ong Kok Aun

Koh Eng Giap

Jonathan P Lang

Dayn Wilberding

James Y Koo

Maximillian Burton

Jonathan Wenocur

Robert Andrew Lambourne

Christopher Kallai

Jacques L Gagne

Raymond Louis Gradwohl

George H F Schnakenberg, Iii

Chris Kallai

Eng Giap Koh

Kumiko Furukawa

John Gee Tang

Michael Zapata

Playback device

Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate playback of multimedia content are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a network interface configured to receive audio content over a playback network. A processor comprising instructions which when executed, cause the processor to detect that a portable playback device has joined the playback network. The processor is to update a state variable to indicate that the portable playback device has joined the playback network. The processor is to play audio content received over the playback network based on the state variable. The processor is to detect that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network. The processor is to, after detecting that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network, update the state variable to indicate that the portable playback device is not joined to the playback network.

Portable playback device state variable

Media player

Portable chair

Systems and methods disclosed herein include, while a microphone of a first networked microphone device is enabled, determining whether a first reference device is in a specific state, and in response to determining that the first reference device is in the specific state, disabling the microphone of the first networked microphone device. Some embodiments further include, while the microphone of the first networked microphone device is enabled, receiving a command to disable the microphone of the first networked microphone device via one of the microphone of the networked microphone device or a network interface of the networked microphone device, and in response to receiving the command to disable the microphone of the networked microphone device via one of the microphone of the networked microphone device or the network interface of the networked microphone device, disabling the microphone of the networked microphone device.

Networked microphone device control

Power plug

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Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America

Mieko Kusano