Patent ID: 9706319
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04B,H04L,H04N,H04R

Claim:
1. A playback device comprising: a first wireless radio; and a radio manager to: determine, while the playback device is in a bonded zone with at least one other playback device, that the playback device has not received control information that indicates that the playback device is to play audio; in response to the determination (i) disable communicating via the first wireless radio; and (ii) send a message to the at least one other playback device in the bonded zone to disable communicating via the first wireless radio; enable the first wireless radio in response to control information, obtained via a second wireless radio, indicating that a second playback device included in the bonded zone is bridging traffic, wherein the traffic comprises audio data; and transfer the bridging traffic to the first wireless radio.