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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
May. 03, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
David C. Graham, Cupertino, CA (US);
Taylor G. Carrigan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas J. Paulson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Johannes P. Schmidt, Los Altos Hill, CA (US);
Thomas Alsina, Saratoga, CA (US);
Bob Bradley, San Jose, CA (US);
Haishan Ye, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James C. Grandy, Reedwood City, CA (US);
Pierre De Lastic, Belmont, CA (US);
Julien Lerouge, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations, a computing device can transfer a playback queue between the computing device and a playback device. For example, the computing device can detect when the computing device is within a threshold distance of a playback device. The computing device can establish a connection to the playback device and receive state information describing the media playback state of the playback device. The computing device can determine the media playback state of the computing device. The computing device can present graphical user interfaces for initiating a transfer of a playback queue between the computing device and the playback device based on the playback state of the devices. The computing device can initiate a transfer of the playback queue in response to user input to one of the graphical user interfaces or automatically based on the context of the computing device.