Do Not Disturb Feature for Audio Notifications

Patent №

US 11,076,035

Granted

2021-07-27

Filed 2018

Owner

SONOS, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16177185

Systems and methods for actuating a Do Not Disturb (DND) feature of a playback device that is configured to play back alert notifications from a plurality of network-enabled devices include (i) a mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of the playback device; (ii) the mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of a DND time period; and (iii) responsive to receiving the input data representing the selections of the playback device and the DND time period, sending an instruction to the selected playback device that causes the selected playback device to enter a DND mode for the duration of the selected DND time period, during which the selected playback device is instructed to not play back alert notifications when the alert notifications are received from at least one network-enabled device of the plurality of network-enabled devices.

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AI classification

Planning0.52
AI hardware0.05
Natural language0.05
Evolutionary computation0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

SONOS, INC.

assignment · 524520415

Assignors

LAMBOURNE, ROBERT A., FISH, NATHAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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