ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,459, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Playback device queue access levels" was invented by Arthur L. Coburn IV (Lexington, Mass.) and Andrew J. Schulert (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Based on a credential, an access level of a playback queue for a first control interface and a first subset and second subset of media items in the playback queue may be determined. Media items in the playback queue that were added via a second control interface may be included in the first subset. Media items that were added via a control interface different from the second control interface may be in...