Patent ID: 11947870
Assignee: SONOS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable medium is provisioned with program instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause a system to:
receive, via at least one network microphone device of the system, a voice command for a given playback device and one or more other playback devices to be grouped for synchronous playback of audio content, wherein the voice command identifies the given playback device and does not identify the one or more other playback devices;
based on state information for one or more devices of the system:
identify a first playback device of the one or more other playback devices that is to be grouped with the given playback device for synchronous playback of audio content; and
select the identified first playback device to be grouped with the given playback device for synchronous playback of audio content; and

based on the voice command, cause the identified first playback device and the given playback device to form a synchrony group such that the identified first playback device and the given playback device are configured to coordinate for (i) synchronous playback of audio content and (ii) synchronous execution of playback control commands.