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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
Chestnut Hill Sound, Inc., Waban, MA (US);
Steven Krampf, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
Evan B. Ross, Newton, MA (US);
Trung Quoc Phung, Milton, MA (US);
Chestnut Hill Sound, Inc., Waban, MA (US);
Abstract
A multi-mode media system operable at a given time in one of a first or a second mode, selectively, the first mode comprising operation to access a media source co-housed with or connected to and operationally integrated with the media system and configured to stream media content to the multi-mode media system for playing by the media system, and the second mode comprising operation of the media system for controlling over a network a media source remote from the multi-mode media system for outputting media content on an output device separate from the multi-mode media system, the media system not being operable in both modes simultaneously nor operable exclusively only in a single one of such modes.