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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2017
Applicant:

Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ted M. Lin, Ayer, MA (US);

Eric M. Bass, Leominster, MA (US);

Assignee:

Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 16/638 (2019.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/438 (2019.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/638 (2019.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/438 (2019.01); G06F 16/4393 (2019.01); G06F 16/639 (2019.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples described herein involve facilitating playback of media content via a webpage. An example implementation involves a computing device: identifying one or more playback zones including at least one respective playback device; transmitting, via a web browser, a webpage request; receiving a webpage that includes a link to a media item; modifying the received webpage to include a representation associated with the link; causing, via the web browser, display of the modified webpage; responsive to a selection of the representation, causing display of the option; and responsive to a selection of the option, causing display of a list of the one or more playback zones, wherein at least one playback zone of the one or more playback zones is selectable to cause the media item to be added to the playback queue associated with the at least one playback zone.


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