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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2019
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Caston Curtis, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mike Kristoffersen, Kongerslev, DK;
Rafal Malewski, Aalborg, DK;
Rafal Zwierz, Cambridge, GB;
ROKU, INC., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing audio by a media device to wireless speakers while content comprising the audio is being played on a display device, wherein the media device includes a single wireless radio. Some embodiments operate by: determining that the media device is not a source of the content, such that the media device does not need to stream the content over a first wireless network; informing the audio speakers to switch from the first wireless network to a second wireless network; disconnecting the media device from the first wireless network; establishing the second wireless network; and providing the audio to the wireless speakers for playback over the second wireless network.