Patent ID: 9720642
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F,H04N,H04R

Claim:
1. A media playback system comprising: a processor; and a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by the media playback system cause the media playback system to perform functions comprising: detecting (i) a command for a first playback device of the media playback system to perform one or more first playback operations and (ii) a command for a second playback device of the media playback system to perform one or more second playback operations; determining that (i) the one or more first playback operations will occur in a first sequence and (ii) the one or more second playback operations will occur in a second sequence; determining that a given first playback operation of the one or more first playback operations will occur concurrently with a given second playback operation of the one or more second playback operations; determining that the given first playback operation has a higher priority than the given second playback operation based on respective times when the command for the first playback device of the media playback system to perform one or more first playback operations and the command for the second playback device of the media playback system to perform one or more second playback operations were detected; and in response to determining that the given first playback operation has the higher priority than the given second playback operation, sending, to a computing system, a request to provide media content related to the given first playback operation to the first playback device.