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

Claim 3:
4. The first playback device of claim 1, 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 selectively receiving the packets via one of the two streams of packets comprises, for an individual packet comprising a first portion of media content in the first stream of packets (i) after determining that the first playback device received the individual packet comprising the first portion of media content via the first stream of packets, the first playback device choosing not to receive a packet comprising the first portion of media content via the second stream of packets, and (ii) after determining that the first playback device did not receive the individual packet comprising the first portion of media content via the first stream of packets or after determining that the individual packet comprising the first portion of media content received via the first stream of packets contained an error, the first playback device choosing to receive a packet comprising the first portion of media content via the second stream of packets.