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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Brian D. Pietsch, Foster City, CA (US);
Craig M. Federighi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Adam A. Sonnanstine, San Francisco, CA (US);
Taylor G. Carrigan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Johannes P. Schmidt, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Astrid Yi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Deepak Iyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas Alsina, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jonathan A. Bennett, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cesar de Camargo Barscevicius, San Mateo, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations, a user device can predictively route media content to a remote playback device based on playback context information obtained by the user device. The playback context can include local playback context information related to the state and/or context of the user device. The playback context can include remote playback context information related to the state and/or context of available remote playback devices. Based on the playback context information obtained by the user device, the user device can generate a predictive score for each available playback device that indicates or predicts the likelihood that the user will want to send media content to the corresponding playback device. The user device can generate and present a graphical user interface that can identify the playback devices having predictive scores over a threshold score. In some instances, the user device can automatically route selected media content to a predicted playback device.