Social media connection recommendations based on playback information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11223661-B2
Application number	US-201715664634-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2017
Priority date	Sep 24, 2014
Publication date	Jan 11, 2022
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022

Abstract

Embodiments are described herein that involve a computing device initiating playback of a particular media item on a media playback system that is registered to a particular account of a social media service. The computing device may query the social media service for one or more accounts of the social media service that are registered to respective media playback systems that have played the particular media item on at least a threshold number of occasions and have not yet been connected to the particular account of the social media service within the social network. The computing device may receive the queried one or more accounts of the social media service and cause a graphical interface to display one or more respective selectable indications of the received one or more accounts of the social media service.

First claim

We claim:

1. A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a computing device to perform functions comprising:
receiving an indication of a media item available for playback by a media playback system registered with a first account of a social media service, wherein the media playback system comprises two or more playback devices;
querying a social media service for one or more second accounts of the social media service that (i) have respective registered media playback systems that have played the media item on at least a threshold number of occasions on the respective registered media playback systems, and (ii) have not yet been connected to the first account of the social media service;
based on the querying of the social media service, receiving the queried one or more second accounts of the social media service that (i) have the respective registered media playback systems, and (ii) that have not yet been connected to the first account of the social media service;
when the media item is displayed in a graphical user interface of the computing device, causing the graphical user interface to display one or more respective indications of the received one or more second accounts of the social media service associated with a particular media item that is currently displayed;
detecting a selection of a particular indication that represents a particular second account of the received one or more second accounts of the social media service; and
in response to detecting the selection, sending a request to the social media service to connect the first account of the social media service to the second account of the received one or more second accounts of the social media service indicated by the selected indication, wherein sending the request to connect comprises the computing device causing the first account of the social media service to send an invitation via the social media service for the second account of the social media service to connect to the first account of the social media service.

2. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the functions further comprise:
after connecting to a local area network, receiving the indication of the media item available for playback by the media playback system registered with the first account of the social media service, wherein computing device is configured to communicate with the media playback system over the local area network.

3. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein querying the social media service for one or more second accounts of the social media service comprises:
sending, via a network interface of the computing device to a computing system, data indicating (i) a track identification that uniquely identifies the media item among a plurality of media items of a media streaming service, (ii) an indication of the media streaming service, and (iii) an indication of the first account that is registered to the social media service; and
requesting, from the computing system via the network interface, data indicating the one or more second accounts of the social media service that (i) have the respective registered media playback systems that have played the media item on at least a threshold number of occasions and (ii) have not yet been connected to the first account of the social media service.

4. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein receiving an indication of a media item available for playback by a media playback system registered with a first account of a social media service comprises:
receiving an indication of an audio track queued for playback by at least one playback device of the media playback system registered with the first account of the social media service.

5. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the functions further comprise:
transmitting, to at least one playback device of the media playback system, a command to play back the media item; and
causing indications of one or more respective names registered with the queried one or more second accounts of the social media service to be displayed on the graphical user interface in association with the displayed one or more respective indications of the received one or more second accounts of the social media service associated with the media item that is currently playing.

6. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the functions further comprise:
causing a graphical interface to display one or more respective indications of the received one or more second accounts of the social media service associated with the media item.

7. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 6 , wherein causing a graphical interface to display one or more respective indications of the received one or more second accounts of the social media service associated with the media item comprises:
causing the graphical interface to display (i) one or more respective indications of a number of occasions in which respective received one or more second accounts have played a particular audio track on respective media playback system, and (ii) one or more respective indications of a request to connect with respective received one or more second accounts.

8. A method, comprising:
receiving, via a computing device, an indication of a media item available for playback by a media playback system registered with a first account of a social media service, wherein the media playback system comprises two or more playback devices;
querying a social media service for one or more second accounts of the social media service that (i) have respective registered media playback systems that have played the media item on at least a threshold number of occasions on the respective registered media playback systems, and (ii) have not yet been connected to the first account of the social media service;
based on the querying of the social media service, receiving the queried one or more second accounts of the social media service that (i) have the respective registered media playback systems, and (ii) that have not yet been connected to the first account of the social media service;
when the media item is displayed in a graphical user interface of the computing device, cause, via the computing device, the graphical user interface to display one or more respective indications of the received one or more second accounts of the social media service associated with a particular media item that is currently displayed;
detecting, via the computing device, a selection of a particular indication that represents a particular second account of the received one or more second accounts of the social media service; and
in response to detecting the selection, sending, via the computing device, a request to the social media service to connect the first account of the social media service to the second account of the received one or more second accounts of the social media service indicated by the selected indication, wherein sending the request to connect comprises the computing device causing the first account of the social media service to send an invitation via the social media service for the second account of the social media service to connect to the first account of the social media service.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
after connecting to a local area network, receiving the indication of the media item available for playback by the media playback system registered with the first account of the social media service, wherein computing device is configured to communicate with the m

Assignees

• Sonos Inc

Inventors

• Corbin Keith
• Kumar Abhishek
• Kuper Ron
• Ramsperger Gregory Paul
• Sarkic Andrej

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06Q10/101 Primary

  Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services · CPC title

• H04L65/612

  for unicast · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• H04L67/125

  involving control of end-device applications over a network · CPC title