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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2023
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Hrishikesh Gossain, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Jose Graziani, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Jeffrey M. Peters, Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael Agerbak, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method for facilitating resolution of Internet Protocol (IP) address conflicts involves obtaining a first IP address from a host device; monitoring, by a playback device, an input port of the host device for receiving messages and thereby detecting that the host device has received a message comprising a first lease renew request for a second IP address from a device other than the playback device; determining that the first IP address matches the second IP address; after determining that the first IP address matches the second IP address, obtaining a third IP address from the host device, wherein the third IP address is different from the first IP address and the second IP address; and after obtaining the third IP address, (i) obtaining audio content from at least one cloud server via the host device and (ii) playing back the audio content using at least one audio amplifier.