Patent ID: 9501533
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N,Y04S

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: responsive to an instruction provided via a first controller interface, receiving, via a network media system, a playlist identifying one or more media items that are available for playback, the network media system comprising a zone that comprises a playback device and a playback queue; adding, via the network media system, the one or more media items identified by the playlist to the playback queue of the zone, wherein the playback queue contains information identifying queued media items to be played by the zone; receiving, via the network media system from a second controller interface, a request for the information identifying all queued media items in the playback queue; determining, via the network media system, that the second controller interface lacks a credential to receive information identifying all queued media items in the playback queue; determining, via the network media system, a subset of the media items in the playback queue based on the second controller interface lacking the credential, wherein the determining the subset comprises: providing, via the network media system to the second controller interface, all playback queue information available to the second controller interface, the playback queue information comprising information identifying the subset of the media items in the playback queue.