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Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2023
Applicant:

Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sein Woo, Whittier, CA (US);

Bona Kim, Boston, MA (US);

Assignee:

Sonos, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/438 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/4387 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0269 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computing device may be configured to (i) operate as a control device of a media playback system including first and second playback devices, each associated with a respective playback queue, (ii) determine that a first playback queue associated with the first playback device is empty, (iii) based on the determination, determine content recommendations based on context information related to the first playback device, (iv) display indications of the first and second playback devices, where (a) the indication of the second playback device indicates media content identified in a second playback queue associated with the second playback device, and (b) the indication of the first playback device includes a selectable indication for each content recommendation for the first playback queue, (v) receive a selection of a content recommendation, and (vi) based on the received input, populate the first playback queue with media content corresponding to the selected content recommendation.


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