METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE ZONES OF A MULTI-ZONE MEDIA PLAYBACK SYSTEM

Patent №

US 9,052,810

Granted

2015-06-09

Filed 2011

Owner

SONOS, INC., A CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13247754

Methods and apparatus to manage zones of a multi-zone media playback system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a user interface; a controller to configure one or more zone groups each associated with one or more media playback devices; a detector to monitor the user interface for a drag of an icon representative of a first one of the zone groups on the user interface from a first position to a second position; and a configuration implementer to change a configuration of the one or more zone groups in response to a detected drag of the icon.

AI hardwareG06F 3/0482G06F 3/04817G06F 3/04842G06F 3/04847G06F 3/0486G06F 3/04883G06F 3/165G06F 16/44+3 more

AI classification

AI hardware0.53
Knowledge representation0.11
Planning0.03
Evolutionary computation0.02
Vision0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

SONOS, INC., A CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

assignment · 269880822

Assignors

REIMANN, ROBERT, HOADLEY, JONI

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

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