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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2022
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Brandon Lynne, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jodi Vautrin, Boston, MA (US);
Edwin Joseph Fitzpatrick, III, Boston, MA (US);
Jason Yore, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
An example playback device is configured to (i) detect, while the graphical display is in a sleep state, that a user is proximate to the playback device, (ii) cause a graphical display to exit a sleep state and present a GUI including a list of selectable quick start icons, each quick start icon corresponding to a respective command to begin playback of respective media content, where the list does not include information identifying the respective media content, (iii) determine that a predetermined period of time has passed after causing the graphical display to exit the sleep state, (iv) update the graphical display to include information identifying the respective media content corresponding to each quick start icon, (v) detect an input selecting one of the quick start icons via the graphical display, and (vi) based on detecting the input, begin to play back the media content corresponding to the selected one of the quick start icons.