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Room association based on name

  • US 10,712,997 B2
  • Filed: 08/21/2017
  • Issued: 07/14/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions stored therein, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause a computing device to perform a method comprising:

  • in a media playback system comprising one or more playback devices, wherein a playback device of the media playback system has a corresponding first set of device attributes used by a first controller application to identify and control the playback device, identifying a second set of device attributes used by a second controller application to identify and control the playback device;

    selecting a second device attribute for the playback device from the second set of device attributes used by the second controller application based at least in part on a first device attribute of the first set of device attributes used by the first controller application, wherein the second set of device attributes comprises a set of room type identifiers, and wherein selecting the second device attribute based at least in part on the first device attribute comprises selecting a room type identifier from the set of room type identifiers;

    causing the selected second device attribute to be stored in the first set of device attributes used by the first controller application to control the playback device; and

    after causing the selected second device attribute to be stored in the first set of device attributes for the playback device, controlling at least one function of the playback device using the selected second device attribute.

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