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Enabling components of a playback device

  • US 10,031,716 B2
  • Filed: 11/24/2015
  • Issued: 07/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A first playback device comprising:

  • a network interface;

    one or more processors; and

    tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions encoded therein, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the first playback device to perform a method comprising;

    maintaining a list of one or more unicast MAC addresses indicating one or more respective second playback devices, wherein the first playback device is configured to network proxy for the one or more second playback devices indicated in the list;

    while one or more components of the first playback device are disabled, receiving, via the network interface, a data packet that comprises a payload representing a given unicast MAC address that corresponds to a network interface of a particular second playback device;

    determining that the first playback device is configured to network proxy for the particular second playback device, wherein determining that the first playback device is configured to network proxy for the particular second playback device comprises identifying the given unicast MAC address in the list of one or more unicast MAC addresses; and

    in response to receiving the data packet that comprises the payload representing the given unicast MAC address that corresponds to the network interface of the particular second playback device and determining that the first playback device is configured to network proxy for the particular second playback device, enabling at least one of the one or more components of the first playback device.

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