Indicating an Association Between a Social-Media Account and a Media Playback System

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016088037-A1
Application number	US-201414495706-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 24, 2014
Priority date	Sep 24, 2014
Publication date	Mar 24, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Examples disclosed herein include a social-media computing system receiving, from a first computing device, a first message indicating that a media playback system is associated with a first social-media account; and based on the received first message, sending, to a second computing device associated with a second social-media account, a second message indicating that the media playback system is associated with the first social-media account. The examples may also include the second computing device receiving, from the social-media computing system, the second message; and based on the received second message, causing display of an indication of the association between the media playback system and the second social-media account.

First claim

We claim:

1 . A social-media computing system comprising:
a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the social-media computing system to perform functions comprising:
receiving, from a first computing device, a first message indicating that a media playback system is associated with a first social-media account; and
based on the received first message, sending, to a second computing device associated with a second social-media account, a second message indicating that the media playback system is associated with the first social-media account.

2 . The social-media computing system of claim 1 , wherein the media playback system includes the first computing device.

3 . The social-media computing system of claim 1 , wherein the second message further indicates that the media playback system is playing back media content, and wherein the functions further comprise, prior to sending the second message, receiving a third message that indicates that the media playback system is playing back media content.

4 . The social-media computing system of claim 3 , wherein the third message and the second message both identify the media content.

5 . The social-media computing system of claim 3 , further comprising:
prior to receiving the third message, sending a request for a message indicating whether the media playback system is playing back media content; and after sending the request, receiving the third message.

6 . The social-media computing system of claim 5 , wherein sending the request comprises sending the request to a media system computing system and receiving the third message comprises receiving the third message from the media system computing system.

7 . The social-media computing system of claim 5 , wherein sending the request comprises sending the request to the media playback system and receiving the third message comprises receiving the third message from the media playback system.

8 . The social-media computing system of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a third message, wherein both the third message and the second message indicate that the media playback system is not playing back media content.

9 . A computing device associated with a first-social media account, the computing device comprising:
a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the computing device to perform functions comprising:
receiving from a social-media computing system, a message indicating that a media playback system is associated with a second social-media account; and
based on the received message, causing display of an indication of the association between the media playback system and the second social-media account.

10 . The computing device of claim 9 , wherein the media playback system comprises at least two playback devices configured to play back media content in synchrony.

11 . The computing device of claim 9 , wherein the received message further indicates a source of a media item that the media playback system plays back, the functions further comprising causing display of an indication of the source of the media item that the media playback system plays back.

12 . The computing device of claim 9 , the functions further comprising:
detecting an input representing a selection of the displayed indication; and based on detecting the input, causing display of an indication of information related to at least one playback operation of the media playback system.

13 . The computing device of claim 9 , wherein the received message further indicates that the media playback system is playing back media content, and wherein the displayed indication further indicates that the media playback system is playing back the media content.

14 . The computing device of claim 13 , wherein the received message identifies the media content that the media playback system is playing back, and wherein the displayed indication identifies the media content that the media playback system is playing back.

15 . The computing device of claim 9 , wherein the received message further indicates that the media playback system is not playing back media content, and wherein the displayed indication further indicates that the media playback system is not playing back media content.

16 . The computing device of claim 15 , wherein the received message identifies media content that was previously played back by the media playback system, and wherein the displayed indication identifies the media content that was previously played back by the media playback system.

17 . A method comprising:
receiving, from a social-media computing system, a message indicating that a media playback system is associated with a second social-media account; and based on the received message, causing display of an indication of the association between the media playback system and the second social-media account.

18 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the message further indicates that a playback account corresponding to the media playback system is associated with the second media account, the method further comprising causing display of an indication of the association between the playback system account and the second social-media account.

19 . The method of claim 17 , further comprising:
detecting an input representing a selection of the displayed indication; and based on detecting the input, causing display of an indication of information related to at least one playback operation of the media playback system.

20 . The method of claim 17 , wherein the received message further indicates that the media playback system is playing back media content, and wherein the displayed indication further indicates that the media playback system is playing back the media content.

Assignees

• Sonos Inc

Inventors

• Lang Jonathan Paul

Classifications

• G06Q10/40 Primary

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

• H04L65/4069 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• H04L67/306

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04L65/61 Primary

  for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio · CPC title