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

Claim 4:
5. The first playback device of claim 1, wherein the first stream of packets addressed to the second playback device comprises packets transmitted from a source device via a first wireless channel, and wherein the second stream of packets addressed to the broadcast group comprising the first playback device comprises packets transmitted from the second playback device via a second wireless channel, and wherein the program instructions comprise further program instructions that are executable by the one or more processors such that the first playback device is further configured to:
selectively receive the packets via one of the two streams of packets comprising the media content, wherein receiving the packets via one of the two streams of packets comprises (i) comparing a quality metric for the first wireless channel with the quality metric for the second wireless channel, (ii) after determining that the quality metric for the first wireless channel is better than the quality metric for the second wireless channel, the first playback device choosing to receive packets transmitted from the source device via the first wireless channel and addressed to the second playback device, and (iii) after determining that the quality metric for the second wireless channel is better than the quality metric for the first wireless channel, the first playback device choosing to receive packets transmitted from the second playback device via the second wireless channel and addressed to the broadcast group.