Patent ID: 8934997
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: G05B,G06F,H03G,H04H,H04N,H04R

Abstract:
1. In a network comprising a plurality of independent playback devices, a method comprising: maintaining, by a first independent playback device, a zone configuration, the zone configuration characterizing one or more zone scenes each zone scene identifying a group configuration associated with two or more of the plurality of independent playback devices; transmitting, by the first independent playback device via a network interface, the zone configuration to a controller device; receiving, by the first independent playback device via the network interface, an instruction from the controller device to invoke a zone scene of the one or more zone scenes; and causing, by the first independent playback device, two or more of the plurality of independent playback devices in the network to group in accordance with the received instruction to invoke the zone scene of the one or more zone scenes.