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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Elena Leyfman, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Thomas Alsina, Burlingame, CA (US);
Edward T. Schmidt, Burlingame, CA (US);
Deepak Iyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David P. Saracino, Alameda, CA (US);
Astrid Yi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Adam A. Sonnanstine, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan A. Bennett, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory R. Chapman, San Jose, CA (US);
Aparna S. Akella, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shreyas Nandagudi Sreesha, Los Altos, CA (US);
Johannes P. Schmidt, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations, a system can be configured to manage groups of playback devices. For example, playback devices can be dynamically grouped in a variety of ways. Each playback device can store attributes that define the group to which the playback device belongs. Each playback device can send its group attributes to remote control devices and the remote control devices can determine groups of playback devices based on the group attributes. The remote control devices can then configure and present graphical user interfaces that represent the various groups of playback devices. In some implementations, a group of playback devices can be configured as a persistent group. For example, a pair of playback devices (e.g., wireless speakers) can store and send attribute data indicating that the pair of playback devices is a persistent group so that remote control devices can present and control the persistent group as a single device.