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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2024
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
William Shoesmith, Arlington, MA (US);
Ted Lin, Ayer, MA (US);
Jeffrey M. Peters, Cambridge, MA (US);
Cameron Scott, Seattle, WA (US);
James Babu, Seattle, WA (US);
Andi Rusu, Seattle, WA (US);
Bryan Cox, Edmonds, WA (US);
Sonos, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Abstract
An example first playback device is configured to (i) determine that the first playback device has lost a connection to a first secure wireless network; (ii) transmit at least one message that indicates that the first playback device is available for setup; (iii) establish a first direct communication path with a computing device configured to operate on a second secure wireless network; (iv) receive, over the first direct communication path, network configuration parameters for connecting to the second secure wireless network; (v) establish a connection to the second secure wireless network; (vi) receive, from a second playback device, a message indicating that the second playback device has lost a second connection to the first secure wireless network; (vii) establish a second direct communication path with the second playback device; and (viii) transmit the network configuration parameters for connecting to the second secure wireless network to the second playback device.