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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2015
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jeffrey Peters, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael Agerbak, Cambridge, MA (US);
Steven R. Beckhardt, Boston, MA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to facilitate connection to an audio playback network are disclosed. An example playback device includes a processor and memory. The memory has stored instructions executable by the processor. The playback device may perform functions including connecting to (a) a local area network and (b) an audio playback network and entering a connection phase. The playback device, while in the connection phase, may receive from a network device a request for the network device to connect to the audio playback network and in response to the request transmit to the network device a message indicating an identifier of the audio playback network and a password for accessing the audio playback network. The playback device may exchange one or more messages with the network device to authenticate the network device for the audio playback network; and after authenticating the network device for the audio playback network, receive an audio playback command from the network device.