Cloud Queue Playback Policies on a Graphical User Interface

• US 20160234277A1
• Filed: 04/15/2016
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
• Inventors: Coburn, Arthur L. IV
• Granted Patent: US 10,116,641 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
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• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 : for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 : by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• 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
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Abstract

An example implementation involves a device of a media playback system transmitting, to a computing system, a request to access a first cloud queue. After transmitting the request, the device receives an indication of first media items in the first cloud queue and an indication of first playback policies that authorize first playback operations on the first cloud queue. While the first cloud queue is accessed, the device displays a control interface with playback controls corresponding to the first playback operations. The device transmits a request to access a second cloud queue. After transmitting the request, the device receives an indication of second media items in the second cloud queue and an indication of second playback policies that authorize second playback operations on the second cloud queue. While the second cloud queue is accessed, the control device displays the control interface with playback controls corresponding to the second playback operations.

Claims

1. Tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions encoded therein, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause a control device of a media playback system to perform a method comprising:

transmitting, over a network interface to a computing system, a request to access a first cloud queue, wherein the first cloud queue is accessible to the media playback system via a wide area network;

after transmitting the request to access the first cloud queue, receiving, over the network interface from the computing system, an indication of one or more first media items of the first cloud queue and an indication of one or more first playback policies that authorize the media playback system to perform one or more first playback operations on the first cloud queue;

while the first cloud queue is being accessed, causing a graphical display to display a control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more first playback operations;

transmitting, over the network interface to the computing system, a request to access a second cloud queue;

after transmitting the request to access the second cloud queue, receiving, over the network interface from the computing system, an indication of one or more second media items of the second cloud queue and an indication of one or more second playback policies that authorize the media playback system to perform one or more second playback operations on the second cloud queue; and

while the second cloud queue is being accessed, causing the graphical display to display the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations, wherein the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more first playback operations is different from the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations.

2. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the one or more first playback operations consist of one or more second playback operations and one or more additional playback operations that are different from the one or more second playback operations.

3. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 2, wherein causing the graphical display to display the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations comprises causing playback controls corresponding to the one or more additional playback operations to be disabled.

4. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 3, wherein causing the graphical display to display the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations causing the playback controls corresponding to the one or more additional playback operations to be displayed as disabled.

5. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 3, wherein causing the graphical display to display the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations causing graphical display to display the control interface without playback controls corresponding to the one or more additional playback operations.

6. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 2, wherein the one or more additional playback operations comprise (i) seeking forward and (ii) seeking backward.

7. The tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 2, wherein the one or more additional playback operations consist of playback operations that modify a pre-determined playback order indicated by the accessed cloud queue.

8. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the media playback system comprises a playback device that is connected to the control device via a network, wherein the one or more second playback policies restrict the media playback system from performing a subset of the one or more second playback operations on a given second media item of the second cloud queue, and wherein the method further comprises:

while the playback device is playing back the given second media item, causing the graphical display to display an indication that the subset of the one or more second playback operations is restricted.

9. The tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media of claim 1, wherein the media playback system comprises a playback device that is connected to the control device via a network, and wherein the method further comprises:

receiving input data indicating a selection of a given playback control of the control interface, the given playback control corresponding to a particular playback operation; and

causing, via the network interface, the playback device of the media playback system to perform the particular playback operation.

10. A method comprising:

transmitting, via a control device of a media playback system over a network interface to a computing system, a request to access a first cloud queue, wherein the first cloud queue is accessible to the media playback system via a wide area network;

after transmitting the request to access the first cloud queue, receiving, via the control device over the network interface from the computing system, an indication of one or more first media items of the first cloud queue and an indication of one or more first playback policies that authorize the media playback system to perform one or more first playback operations on the first cloud queue;

while the first cloud queue is being accessed, causing, via the control device, a graphical display to display a control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more first playback operations;

transmitting, via the control device over the network interface to the computing system, a request to access a second cloud queue;

after transmitting the request to access the second cloud queue, receiving, via the control device over the network interface from the computing system, an indication of one or more second media items of the second cloud queue and an indication of one or more second playback policies that authorize the media playback system to perform one or more second playback operations on the second cloud queue; and

while the second cloud queue is being accessed, causing, via the control device, the graphical display to display the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations, wherein the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more first playback operations is different from the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more first playback operations consist of one or more second playback operations and one or more additional playback operations that are different from the one or more second playback operations.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein causing the graphical display to display the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations comprises causing playback controls corresponding to the one or more additional playback operations to be disabled.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein causing the graphical display to display the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations causing the playback controls corresponding to the one or more additional playback operations to be displayed as disabled.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein causing the graphical display to display the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations causing graphical display to display the control interface without playback controls corresponding to the one or more additional playback operations.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more additional playback operations comprise (i) seeking forward and (ii) seeking backward.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the one or more additional playback operations consist of playback operations that modify a pre-determined playback order indicated by the accessed cloud queue.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the media playback system comprises a playback device that is connected to the control device via a network, wherein the one or more second playback policies restrict the media playback system from performing a subset of the one or more second playback operations on a given second media item of the second cloud queue, and wherein the method further comprises:

while the playback device is playing back the given second media item, causing the graphical display to display an indication that the subset of the one or more second playback operations is restricted.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the media playback system comprises a playback device that is connected to the control device via a network, and wherein the method further comprises:

receiving input data indicating a selection of a given playback control of the control interface, the given playback control corresponding to a particular playback operation; and

causing, via the network interface, the playback device of the media playback system to perform the particular playback operation.

19. A control device of a media playback system, the control device comprising:

a network interface;

one or more processors; and

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

transmitting, over the network interface to a computing system, a request to access a first cloud queue, wherein the first cloud queue is accessible to the media playback system via a wide area network;

after transmitting the request to access the first cloud queue, receiving, over the network interface from the computing system, an indication of one or more first media items of the first cloud queue and an indication of one or more first playback policies that authorize the media playback system to perform one or more first playback operations on the first cloud queue;

while the first cloud queue is being accessed, causing a graphical display to display a control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more first playback operations;

transmitting, over the network interface to the computing system, a request to access a second cloud queue;

after transmitting the request to access the second cloud queue, receiving, via the control device over the network interface from the computing system, an indication of one or more second media items of the second cloud queue and an indication of one or more second playback policies that authorize the media playback system to perform one or more second playback operations on the second cloud queue; and

while the second cloud queue is being accessed, causing, via the control device, the graphical display to display the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations, wherein the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more first playback operations is different from the control interface comprising playback controls corresponding to the one or more second playback operations.

20. The control device of claim 19, wherein the one or more first playback operations consist of one or more second playback operations and one or more additional playback operations that are different from the one or more second playback operations.