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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2020
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Dayn Wilberding, Portland, OR (US);
Youjin Nam, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Tadeo T. Toulis, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Cole Harris, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Patrick Devine, Andover, MA (US);
Ncholas A. J. Millington, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jodi Vautrin, Boston, MA (US);
Maria-Jose Ramos, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard Bannon, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Sheldon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ted Lin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ron Kuper, Arlington, MA (US);
Kirsten Lewis, Boston, MA (US);
Jake Harwood, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Herbst, Seattle, WA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples described herein relate to transitioning a playback session between portable playback devices such as 'smart' headphones, earbuds, and handheld speakers with playback devices of a zone-based media playback system. Exemplary techniques facilitate continuity of playback when transitioning between locations (e.g., from at home to on-the-go or vice versa) or between listening paradigms (e.g., personal or out-loud playback of audio content). An example implementation includes detecting a swap trigger, determining the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s), and performing a playback session swap between the source playback device(s) and target playback device(s).