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Appliance systems providing user-friendly shared music playlist editing

  • US 9,372,597 B2
  • Filed: 01/13/2014
  • Issued: 06/21/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for operating an appliance, the method comprising:

  • identifying a plurality of audio files accessible by the appliance over one or more local area networks;

    uploading data identifying the plurality of audio files to a server;

    providing an access code to a user computing device, wherein the access code allows the user computing device to communicate with the server to select one or more of the plurality of audio files for playback, wherein providing the access code to the user computing device comprises displaying a machine-readable optical representation of data on a display of the appliance, and wherein the machine-readable optical representation of data encodes the access code;

    receiving from the server data identifying a first audio file selected for playback; and

    causing one or more speakers to play the first audio file.

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