ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,157, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"Music discovery" was invented by Paul Bates (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to music discovery. In one aspect, a method is provided that involves (a) receiving by a computing device an indication of a search tool from among a plurality of search tools, where each search tool of the plurality of search tools is associated with at least one respective media service, (b) receiving by the computing device an indication of a media characteristic, where the computing device receives the media characteristic via the ind...