ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,583, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Smart music services preferences" was invented by Jonathan Lang (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example computing device is configured to transmit playback preference tracking information to a media service registered with a media playback system and, after transmitting the playback preference information, (a) determine a first time boundary corresponding to a beginning of a zone scene that causes a first playback device in a first zone of the media playback system to be configured for synchronous playback of media with a second playback de...