Patent ID: 9648070
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G05B,G06F,H04H,H04L,H04N,H04R

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, via a computing system over a network interface from a media playback system, a request to initiate playback of a cloud queue at a given audio track, wherein an access status of the cloud queue is currently a first access status that authorizes a first set of queue operations, the first set of queue operations comprising playback of the cloud queue; after receiving the request to initiate playback of the cloud queue, causing, via the computing system over the network interface, one or more audio tracks of the cloud queue to be queued in a local queue of the media playback system, wherein the one or more audio tracks include at least the given audio track, and wherein the audio tracks of the cloud queue are playable by one or more playback devices of the media playback system via the local queue; modifying, via the computing system, the access status of the cloud queue from the first access status to a second access status, wherein the second access status authorizes a second set of queue operations on the cloud queue, wherein the second set of queue operations is different from the first set of queue operations; and based on the second access status of the cloud queue, causing, via the computing system over the network interface, access to the local queue of the media playback system to be restricted to the second set of queue operations.