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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013

Filed:

Jan. 07, 2009
Applicants:

Max Gordon Ramsay, New South Wales, AU;

Joe Taylor, New South Wales, AU;

Vincenzo Giuliani, Burlingame, CA (US);

Inventors:

Max Gordon Ramsay, New South Wales, AU;

Joe Taylor, New South Wales, AU;

Vincenzo Giuliani, Burlingame, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Described herein are systems and methods for managing the operation of networked media playback devices. One embodiment includes Graphical User Interface for coordinating playback of media via one or more networked wireless speaker devices. In particular, a user is able to 'drag and drop' audio tracks to icons that are respectively indicative of one or more networked wireless speaker devices, thereby to affect playback of those audio tracks via those speaker devices.

Published as:
WO2009086599A1; US2010299639A1; US8423893B2;

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