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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2021
Sonos, Inc, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Nicholas A. J. Millington, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Craig Wisneski, Cambridge, MA (US);
Steven Beckhardt, Cambridge, MA (US);
Neil Griffiths, Lexington, MA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to control audio playback devices are disclosed. An example first playback device includes a speaker driver, a processor, and a computer readable medium including a set of instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the first playback device to implement a method. The example method includes receiving, from a first audio information source, first audio information. The example method includes playing back the first audio information. The example method includes receiving, from a second audio information source, (i) a first message, and (ii) second audio information. Based on the received first message, the example method includes (i) determining that the first playback device and a second playback device are to playback the second audio information; (ii) stopping play back of the first audio information; (iii) playing back, via the speaker driver, the second audio information; and (iv) sending the second audio information to the second playback device.