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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
May. 15, 2017
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Keith Corbin, Boston, MA (US);
Paul Kafadar, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abhishek Kumar, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Ron Kuper, Arlington, MA (US);
Gregory Paul Ramsperger, Somerville, MA (US);
Andrej Sarkic, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples provided herein are directed to social-media playback queues. In one example, a computing system may be configured to (i) receive an identifier of a media playback system, (ii) link the identifier with a social-media account, (iii) based at least on linking the identifier with the social-media account, generate a social-media playback queue that is Tillable with one or more media items playable by the media playback system, (iv) establish access permissions to the social-media playback queue, where the access permissions indicate at least one additional social media account that (a) is within a social-media network of the social-media account, and (b) has access to the social-media playback queue, (v) receive, from a computing device affiliated with the at least one additional social-media account, an indication of a media item to be added to the social-media playback queue, and (vi) add the media item to the social-media playback queue.