Media playback system with virtual line-in

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11693619
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17378717

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Example systems and techniques disclosed herein facilitate interoperability between different media playback systems referred to herein as a virtual line-in (VLI) media playback system and a native playback system. When a VLI session is created by a VLI sender, a first native playback device can join a VLI group as a VLI receiver. As a VLI receiver, the first native playback device receives audio content and playback commands from the VLI sender to facilitate synchronous playback with other VLI receivers. At the same time, this native playback device can concurrently operate as a native domain group coordinator of a native domain synchrony group. As the native domain group coordinator, the native playback device translates VLI domain audio, control, and timing signals into the native domain and distributes such signals to native domain group members. In this way, the native domain group members can synchronize their playback with the VLI group.

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SONOS INC614 CHAPALA ST SANTA BARBARA CA 93101

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Coburn,, IV Arthur L Lexington, US 106 976
Kotowski, Chris Boston, US 8 21

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