Social Network Account Assisted Service Registration

• US 20160315985A1
• Filed: 04/23/2015
• Published: 10/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
• Inventors: Fristrom, Carl, Sarkic, Andrej, Storlie, Danielle, Roberts, Diane, Kuper, Ron, Wilberding, Dayn
• Granted Patent: US 9,787,739 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0806 Multiuser, multiprocessor or multiprocessing cache systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

An example implementation may involve a control device displaying, on a graphical interface, a prompt for login credentials. The example implementation may also involve the control device detecting input data at the prompt indicating a login credential for a given account of a social networking service. The example implementation may further involve the control device querying the social networking service for streaming media services that are associated with the given account of the social networking service. In response to the query, the control device may receive data indicating a first streaming media service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service. The example implementation may involve registering the first streaming media service with a media playback system and populating a queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items from the first streaming media service.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions executable by one or more processors to cause a control device to perform operations comprising:

displaying, on a graphical interface, a prompt for login credentials;

detecting input data at the prompt indicating a login credential for a given account of a social networking service;

querying, via a network interface, the social networking service for streaming media services that are associated with the given account of the social networking service;

receiving, in response to the query for streaming media services that are associated with the given account of the social networking service, data indicating a first streaming media service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service;

registering the first streaming media service with a media playback system, wherein the media playback system includes the control device and one or more playback devices; and

populating a queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items from the first streaming media service.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

directing at least one playback device of the media playback system to initiate playback of the populated queue; and

displaying, on the graphical interface, a selectable pause control that, when selected, pauses the initiated payback of the populated queue by the at least one playback device.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

upon populating the queue, displaying, on the graphical interface, a selectable play control that, when selected, directs at least one playback device of the media playback system to initiate playback of the populated queue.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein displaying, on the graphical interface, the prompt for login credentials comprises displaying a prompt to setup an account for the media playback system, and wherein the operations further comprise selecting the given account of the social networking service as the account for the media playback system.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein registering the first streaming media service with the media playback system comprises:

displaying, on the graphical interface, a selectable control that, when selected, authorizes access by the media playback system to the first streaming media service such that the media playback system is authorized to obtain the one or more particular media items from the first streaming media service; and

detecting input data indicating a selection of the selectable control that, when selected, authorizes access by the media playback system to the streaming media service.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, in response to the query for streaming media services that are associated with the given account of the social networking service, data indicating a second streaming media service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service;

registering the second streaming media service with the media playback system; and

populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items from the second streaming media service.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items from the first streaming media service comprises:

querying the social networking service for (i) an account of the first streaming service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service, and (ii) one or more media items that were recently played from the first streaming media service by the account of the first streaming service;

selecting the one or more media items that were recently played from the first streaming media service by the account of the first streaming service as the one or more particular media items.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items from the first streaming media service comprises:

querying the social networking service for (i) an account of a third streaming service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service, and (ii) one or more first media items that were recently played from the third streaming media service by the account of the second streaming media service, wherein the third streaming media service is unable to be registered with the media playback system;

querying the first streaming media service for one or more second media items that are equivalent to the one or more first media items that were recently played from the third streaming media service by the account of the third streaming media service; and

selecting the one or more second media items that are equivalent to the one or more first media items that were recently played as the one or more particular media items.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items from the first streaming media service comprises:

querying the social networking service for (i) an account of the first streaming service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service, and (ii) one or more media items from the first media streaming service that were designated as favorites by the account of the first streaming service;

selecting the one or more media items from the first media streaming service that were designated as favorites by the account of the first streaming media service as the one or more particular media items.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items from the first streaming media service comprises:

querying the social networking service for (i) an account of the first streaming service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service, and (ii) a streaming radio channel of the first media streaming service that was previously accessed by the account of the first streaming service;

selecting the streaming radio channel of the first media streaming service that was previously accessed by the account of the first streaming service as the one or more particular media items.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items of the first streaming media service comprises:

querying the social networking service for (i) an account of the first streaming service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service, and (ii) a playlist of the first media streaming service that was saved by the account of the first streaming service, wherein the playlist includes a sequence of media items;

selecting the sequence of media items as the one or more particular media items.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items of the first streaming media service comprises:

querying the social networking service for (i) an account of the first streaming service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service, and (ii) a particular playlist of the first media streaming service that was recently played by the account of the first streaming service, wherein the playlist includes a sequence of media items; and

selecting the sequence of media items as the one or more particular media items.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise

determining a particular media item within the particular playlist that was last played;

and

directing the at least one playback device to initiate playback of the populated queue beginning with a media item that is subsequent to the particular media item within the sequence of media items.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items of the first streaming media service comprises:

searching a feed of the given account of the social networking service for one or more media items that are indicated in the feed; and

selecting the one or more media items that are indicated in the feed as the one or more particular media items.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein searching the feed of the given account of the social networking service comprises:

sending, to the social networking service, a request to (i) search the feed for metadata indicating one or more media items that have been published in the feed, and (ii) send an indication of the one or more media items that have been published in the feed to the media playback system.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items of the first streaming media service comprises:

sending, to a given playback device via the network interface, a command to populate a queue stored on the given playback device with the one or more particular media items of the first streaming media service.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein populating the queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items of the first streaming media service comprises:

sending, to a cloud queue service via the network interface, a command to populate a cloud queue stored on a server of the cloud queue service with the one or more particular media items of the first streaming media service.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more playback devices of the media playback system comprise a first zone of one or more first playback devices and a second zone of one or more second playback devices, and wherein the operations further comprise:

determining that the control device is located in proximity to the one or more second playback devices of the second zone; and

directing the one or more second playback devices of the second zone to initiate playback of the populated queue.

19. A control device comprising:

a network interface;

one or more processors;

a data storage having stored therein instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the control device to perform operations comprising;

displaying, on a graphical interface, a prompt for login credentials;

detecting input data at the prompt indicating a login credential for a given account of a social networking service;

querying, via the network interface, the social networking service for streaming media services that are associated with the given account of the social networking service;

receiving, in response to the query for streaming media services that are associated with the given account of the social networking service, data indicating a given streaming media service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service;

registering the given streaming media service with a media playback system, wherein the media playback system includes the control device and one or more playback devices; and

populating a queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items from the first streaming media service.

20. A method comprising:

causing, by a control device of a media playback system, a graphical interface to display a prompt for login credentials;

detecting input data at the prompt indicating a login credential for a given account of a social networking service;

querying, via a network interface, the social networking service for streaming media services that are associated with the given account of the social networking service;

receiving, in response to the query for streaming media services that are associated with the given account of the social networking service, data indicating a first streaming media service that is associated with the given account of the social networking service;

registering the first streaming media service with a media playback system, wherein the media playback system includes the control device and one or more playback devices; and

populating a queue of the media playback system with one or more particular media items from the first streaming media service.