Patent ID: 9363255
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G05B,G06F,H04H,H04L,H04N,H04R

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, via a computing system from a given media playback system over a network interface, a request for an indication of a playhead pointer for a particular cloud queue of media items that is accessible to the given media playback system via a wide area network, wherein media items of the particular cloud queue are playable by one or more playback devices of the given media playback system; identifying, via the computing system, a position of the playhead pointer within the particular cloud queue of media items, wherein each position in the particular cloud queue corresponds to a respective media item; and sending, via the computing system to the given media playback system over the network interface, an indication of the playhead pointer, wherein the indication of the playhead pointer indicates the identified position of the playhead pointer.