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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2020
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jonathan P. Lang, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Mark Plagge, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Simon Jarvis, Cambridge, MA (US);
Romi Kadri, Cambridge, CA (US);
Yean-Nian Willy Chen, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Paul Andrew Bates, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Luis Vega-Zayas, Cambridge, CA (US);
Chistopher Butts, Evanston, IL (US);
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Keith Corbin, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
Multiple aspects of systems and methods for voice control and related features and functionality for various embodiments of media playback devices, networked microphone devices, microphone-equipped media playback devices, and speaker-equipped networked microphone devices are disclosed and described herein, including but not limited to designating and managing default networked devices, audio response playback, room-corrected voice detection, content mixing, music service selection, metadata exchange between networked playback systems and networked microphone systems, handling loss of pairing between networked devices, actions based on user identification, and other voice control of networked devices.