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Speaker discovery and assignment

US10158946B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 4, 2015
Grant dateDec 18, 2018
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Expiry dateSep 4, 2035

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W12/65
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for discovering and assigning wireless speakers to one or more devices capable of providing audio content. In some embodiments, the speakers may receive one or more channels of multi-channel audio content. In some embodiments, one or more wireless speakers are discovered, a prompt identifying at least one speaker location is provided at an output device, a list of wireless speakers is provided to the output device, wherein the list of wireless speakers corresponds to the discovered one or more wireless speakers, a selection of a wireless speaker from the list of wireless speakers is received; and the selected wireless speaker is associated to the at least one speaker location.

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