Patent ID: 11934444
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium, comprising computer-readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computer, cause the computer to:
communicatively couple to a plurality of content playback devices;
receive input from at least a subset of the plurality of content playback devices;
generate, modify, or both, a playlist based upon the input received from the at least subset of the plurality of content playback devices; and
act as a localized surrogate of a cloud-based synchronization service, independent of playback commands from the cloud-based synchronization service, that causes synchronized playback of the playlist to users of the plurality of content playback devices, by commanding the synchronized playback of the playlist to each of the plurality of content playback devices via a direct communication channel with each of the plurality of content playback devices.