Patent ID: 11889290
Assignee: SONOS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising a playback device and a network device, the playback device comprising:
one or more microphones;
a first network interface;
at least one first processor;
at least one first tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium; and
first program instructions stored on the at least one first tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium that, when executed by the at least one first processor, cause the playback device to perform first functions comprising:
detecting, via the one or more microphones, an acoustic signal;
sending, to the network device via the first network interface over a digital data network, data corresponding to the detected acoustic signal;
receiving, via the first network interface over the digital data network, one or more commands;
performing a playback command based on the one or more received commands, wherein performing the playback command comprises playing back, via at least one audio transducer, audio content; and
based on a detection of a human presence, modifying, via the playback device, playback of the audio content, and

the network device comprising:
a second network interface;
at least one second processor;
at least one second tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium; and
second program instructions stored on the at least one second tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium that, when executed by the at least one second processor, cause the network device to perform second functions comprising:
receiving, via the second network interface, the data corresponding to the detected acoustic signal;
determining, via the at least one second processor, the one or more commands based on the sent data corresponding to the detected acoustic signal; and
sending, via the second network interface, the one or more commands.