ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,668, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Media preference database" was invented by Maarten van der Heide (Goleta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example technologies involve media preferences corresponding to multiple user accounts. In an example, a server of a streaming audio service receives, from a first controller interface on a first mobile device, data representing a request to play back a first audio track on a playback device, the first controller interface associated with a first user account of the streaming audio service. In response, the server streams data representing the first audio t...