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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2022
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Kirsten Lewis, Boston, MA (US);
Kristen Leclerc, Boston, MA (US);
Youjin Nam, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Dayn Wilberding, Portland, OR (US);
James Nesfield, London, GB;
Fiede Schillmoeller, Waterland, NL;
Dimitri Singer, Paris, FR;
DonPaul Nogueira, Boston, MA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
A playback device is configured to: based on a room setting of the playback device, determine that the playback device is associated with a first room of a media playback system; operate in a first mode that is associated with a first user type and a first set of playback control options; determine that the room setting of the playback device has changed; determine that the playback device is no longer associated with the first room and is associated with a second room of the media playback system; transition to operating in a second mode; determine that the playback device is no longer associated with the second room and is associated with the first room; transition to operating in the first mode; receive a playback command; determine that the playback command corresponds to a playback control option within the first set; and execute the playback command.