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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2016
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Sein Woo, Somerville, MA (US);
Roy Pollock, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Liesbeth van den Berg, Medford, MA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
An example implementation may involve a media playback system receiving message(s) indicating that a first playback device is available for configuration into a zone of a media playback system. The implementation may further involve identifying one or more second playback devices and determining that the first playback device and the one or more second playback devices are compatible with certain bonded zone configurations. The implementation may also involve detecting selection of a bonded zone configuration from among the compatible bonded zone configurations and displaying an indication of one or more particular second playback devices that are compatible with the selected bonded zone configuration. The implementation may involve detecting selection of at least one particular second playback device from among the one or more particular second playback devices and causing the first playback device to form the selected bonded zone configuration with the selected at least one particular second playback device.