Patent ID: 11916991
Assignee: SONOS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein the first stream of packets addressed to the second playback device comprises packets transmitted from a source device via a first wireless channel, wherein the second stream of packets addressed to the broadcast group comprises packets transmitted from the second playback device via a second wireless channel that is different than the first wireless channel, and wherein coordinating playback of the media content in the groupwise manner with one or more other playback devices via control messages exchanged with the second playback device comprises coordinating playback of the media content in the groupwise manner with one or more other playback devices via control messages exchanged with the second playback device via a third wireless channel separate from the first wireless channel and the second wireless channel.