ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,494, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Simulation of device removal" was invented by Lee Keyser-Allen (Medford, Mass.), Arthur L. Coburn IV (Lexington, Mass.) and Hrishikesh Gossain (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computing device is configured to, while operating as a control device of a networked media playback system that includes a first set of network devices and a second set of network devices, (i) transmit a first message to each network device in the first set of network devices, wherein the first message comprises a command to, at a first time, temporarily...