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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Yagil Burowski, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert W. Brumley, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles W. Duyk, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron Eyal, Herzliya, IL;
Yunxing Ye, Fremont, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations, the device may include conducting ranging with one or more playback devices to determine ranging information between the mobile device and each of the one or more playback devices, where the one or more playback devices are configured to play the streaming data when received from the mobile device, and where the ranging information provides at least one of a distance and an orientation between the mobile device and each of the one or more playback devices. In addition, the device may include detecting a selection of a media item. Also, the device may include identifying a particular playback device from the one or more playback devices for playing the selected media item based on the ranging information of the mobile device relative to each of the one or more playback devices.