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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
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 system can be configured so that a first user device can delegate a first user's media account credentials to second user device corresponding to a second user. For example, a playback device may be configured with the second user's media account credentials for accessing media items through a network media service. A first user may wish to play media items associated with the first user's media account credentials on the playback device. To do so, the first user device can request a device identifier for the playback device, request and obtain a delegate token for the device identifier from the media service, and provide the delegate token along with media item information to the playback device. The playback device can then use the delegate token to request the media item associated with the first user's media access account.