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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2023
Applicant:
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Luis Vega Zayas, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ted M. Lin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Sonos, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/165 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are playback devices, groups of playback devices, and methods of operating playback devices and groupings thereof to cause the playback devices in a group of playback devices to play audio content together in synchrony based on playback timing and clock timing, where the audio content and playback timing and the clock timing for use with playing the audio content according to the clock timing are provided by different playback devices in the group of playback devices.