公开(公告)号：US11197054B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-07

申请号：US16689749

申请日：2019-11-20

Applicant: ROKU, INC.

Inventor： Robert Caston Curtis ,  Mike Kristoffersen ,  Rafal Malewski ,  Rafal Zwierz

IPC: H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/4363 ,  G10L25/51 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04R3/12

Abstract: Provided herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing audio by a media device to wireless speakers while content comprising the audio is being played on a display device, wherein the media device includes a single wireless radio. Some embodiments operate by: determining that the media device is not a source of the content, such that the media device does not need to stream the content over a first wireless network; informing the audio speakers to switch from the first wireless network to a second wireless network; disconnecting the media device from the first wireless network; establishing the second wireless network; and providing the audio to the wireless speakers for playback over the second wireless network.

公开(公告)号：US11943497B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-26

申请号：US17510954

申请日：2021-10-26

Applicant: ROKU, INC.

Inventor： Robert Caston Curtis ,  Mike Kristoffersen ,  Rafal Malewski ,  Rafal Zwierz

IPC: H04N21/43 ,  G10L25/51 ,  H04N21/4363 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04R3/12

CPC classification number: H04N21/43076 ,  G10L25/51 ,  H04N21/4307 ,  H04N21/43637 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04R3/12 ,  H04R2420/07

Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments for network-based audio playback. An embodiment operates by determining that a media device is configured to stream audio content to one or more wireless speakers over a first wireless network. A second wireless network over which the media device is configured to stream the audio content to the one or more wireless speakers is established by the media device. A signal to the one or more wireless speakers to switch from the first wireless network to the second wireless network is provided by the media device. The audio is provided to the wireless speakers for playback over the second wireless network.