ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,475, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Cloud queue synchronization" was invented by Arthur L. Coburn IV (Lexington, Mass.), Steven Beckhardt (Boston) and Andrew J. Schulert (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques relate to cloud queue synchronization. An example implementation may involve a playback device receiving, from a cloud computing system, data representing a play message comprising: (i) a play pointer representing a particular media item; (ii) an indication of one or more media items, the one or more media items including the particular media item; and (iii) a...