Patent ID: 11875770
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A method for providing a listener audio environment via a speaker device, comprising:
at least partially acoustically isolating the listener audio environment from an external audio environment;
receiving first audio content at the speaker device;
determining that the external audio environment comprises an alert comprising one or more sounds from the external audio environment that can be reproduced at the one or more speakers;
determining, based on a location of a source of the alert and a location of the speaker device, a distance between the alert source and the speaker device,
determining a priority level of the alert based on the distance;
in response to the determining, based on the priority level, that the alert should be reproduced, audibly reproducing the alert via one or more speakers of the speaker device with the first audio content.