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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Deepak Iyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas Alsina, Burlingame, CA (US);
Edward T. Schmidt, Burlingame, CA (US);
Elena Leyfman, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David P. Saracino, Alameda, CA (US);
Astrid Yi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Adam A. Sonnanstine, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan A Bennett, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory R. Chapman, San Jose, CA (US);
Aparna S. Akella, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shreyas Nandagudi Sreesha, Los Altos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations a system can be configured to reduce the burden of pairing user devices with playback devices. For example, all users (or user devices) who commonly operate within a particular environment (e.g., a home) can be configured as authorized users of playback devices within the particular environment. When one of the authorized users pairs a user device with a playback device, all of the user devices for all authorized users can be automatically paired with the playback device as a result of the single pairing. Thus, only a single authorized user is burdened with the pairing process in order to pair all authorized users with the playback device.