Google infringed on five Sonos patents, according to preliminary ruling

It would be awesome if when reading a news article on court cases or patents, that your browser could automatically inform you about the actual patent or court case given the content of the article.<p>But implementing that would probably violate Microsoft patent on &#x27;Extensibility for context-aware digital personal assistant&#x27; or one of the millions of other patents. It is better to not make that feature at all I guess.<p>I am not sure how anything gets made, unless you ignore patents, and then see if you get sued. No way the typical start-up is cognizant of the millions of patents they could potentially be violating. It would be impossible to even try to keep that in your head when being creative.

This article had a cursory description of the patent(s) that was (were) allegedly violated:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;sonos-google-itc-compliant-initial-ruling-220232437.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engadget.com&#x2F;sonos-google-itc-compliant-initial-...</a><p>Looks like the primary, initial complaint was around the tuning feature for the speakers. There is a link to subsequent complaints.<p>If you have a Sonos, when you first set up a speaker you use wave your mobile around while the speaker emits a tone and your phone mic sends it feedback on how to optimize the sound.

Hopefully, once they&#x27;ve sorted out their patent squabbles, Sonos and Google can enable better integration between their systems.<p>Right now, Sonos&#x27;s Google Home&#x2F;Assistant integration feels half-baked, and playing music is a much better experience on iOS due to the AirPlay 2 integration.

This is ridiculous. Pretty soon you don&#x27;t be able to stream to a Raspberry Pi connected to a speaker without violating a patent. Their failure to even state what the patent is leads me to believe it is something basic like this which means I will never buy a Sonos product.

What are the patents?