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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2017
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas M. Alsina, Cupertino, CA (US);
David C. Graham, Campbell, CA (US);
Andrew M. Wadycki, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Edward T. Schmidt, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Joel M. Lopes Da Silva, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard M. Powell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gregory R. Chapman, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment provides for a media playback device comprising a memory device to store instructions; one or more processors to execute the instructions stored on the memory device, the instructions to cause the one or more processors to provide a playback queue manager to manage one or more media playback queues including a set of media items associated with a scheduled event and a playback routing manager to determine an output destination for the set of media items based on context associated with the scheduled event, the playback routing manager to route output of playback of the set of media items to one or more of multiple different connected media playback devices based on the context associated with the scheduled event.