Patent ID: 11886496
Assignee: SONOS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method to be performed by a system comprising a playback device and a first control device comprising a first instance of a particular control application, the method comprising:
receiving, via a network interface of the playback device from a second instance of the particular control application on a second control device, first data representing a command to add particular audio tracks to a playback queue;
assigning ownership of the playback queue to the second instance of the particular control application;
adding the particular audio tracks to the playback queue according to the first data representing the command;
playing back at least a portion of the particular audio tracks via at least one audio transducer of the playback device;
sending, via a second network interface of the first control device, second data representing a request to control the playback device;
receiving, via the network interface of the playback device from the first instance of the particular control application, the second data representing the request to control the playback device;
assigning ownership of the playback queue to the first instance of the particular control application according to the received request to control the playback device represented by the second data;
receiving, via an input interface of the first control device, input data representing a playback command;
sending, via the network interface of the first control device, third data representing the playback command to control playback of the playback queue;
receiving, via the network interface of the playback device from the first instance of the particular control application, the third data representing the playback command to control playback of the playback queue; and
performing the playback command on the playback queue.