ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,718, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Playback device media item replacement" was invented by Paul Andrew Bates (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Steven Beckhardt (Boston) and Jonathon Reilly (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for replacing media items in a queue of a playback device. An example implementation involves receiving, at the playback device, first data indicating an addition of a first media item to a queue. The playback device determines that the first media item is no longer accessible to the playback device at a later second time. The playback device ...