ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,653, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Webpage media playback" was invented by Ted M. Lin (Ayer, Mass.) and Eric M. Bass (Leominster, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein involve facilitating playback of media content via a webpage. An example implementation involves a computing device: identifying one or more playback zones including at least one respective playback device; transmitting, via a web browser, a webpage request; receiving a webpage that includes a link to a media item; modifying the received webpage to include a representation associated with the link; caus...