ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,179, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Control with distributed command processing" was invented by Daniel Casimiro (Mansfield, Mass.) and Gregory Ramsperger (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques described herein involve a point-of-contact (POC) playback device that operates as an intermediary between the cloud and a media playback system that includes the POC playback device. As the intermediary, when the cloud issues a command to the media playback system, the POC playback device may perform some or all processing of the command to determine how to implement that command in t...