US 11,943,497 B2
Network-based audio playback
Robert Caston Curtis, Los Gatos, CA (US); Mike Kristoffersen, Kongerslev (DK); Rafal Malewski, Aalborg (DK); and Rafal Zwierz, Cambridge (GB)
Assigned to Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by ROKU, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/510,954.
Application 17/510,954 is a continuation of application No. 16/689,749, filed on Nov. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,197,054.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/775,450, filed on Dec. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046311 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 21/43 (2011.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 21/43076 (2020.08) [G10L 25/51 (2013.01); H04N 21/4307 (2013.01); H04N 21/43637 (2013.01); H04N 21/439 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining that a media device is configured to stream audio content to one or more wireless speakers over a first wireless network;
establishing, by the media device, a second wireless network between the media device and the one or more wireless speakers, over which the media device is configured to stream the audio content to the one or more wireless speakers;
providing, by the media device, a signal to the one or more wireless speakers to switch from the first wireless network to the second wireless network;
determining that the media device is not a source of the audio content;
disconnecting the media device from the first wireless network based on the determination that the media device is not the source of the audio content; and
providing, by the media device, the audio content over the second wireless network to the wireless speakers for playback.