US 11,740,857 B2
Playback session transitions across different platforms
Dinesh Kannan, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Filed by Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/524,579.
Application 17/524,579 is a continuation of application No. 16/745,910, filed on Jan. 17, 2020, granted, now 11,175,883.
Prior Publication US 2022/0244905 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 65/60 (2022.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC G06F 3/165 (2013.01) [G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06F 3/162 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method to be performed by a mobile device, the method comprising:
while a playback device is playing back audio content during a first playback session in a first domain, detecting an event, the event configured as a trigger to transfer playback to a second domain on the mobile device, wherein the first domain comprises a first protocol, and wherein the second domain comprises a second protocol;
in response to detecting the event, determining that the playback device was playing particular audio content from a network location at one or more servers of a particular streaming audio service in the first playback session and that the playback device was at a given playback position in the particular audio content; and
initiating a second playback session in the second domain to play back the particular audio content on the mobile device from the network location at the one or more servers of the particular streaming audio service and beginning at an offset in the particular audio content representing the given playback position such that the first playback session in the first domain is reproduced by the second playback session in the second domain.