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US 2017/0255635 A1Published application
Data-driven media management within an electronic device
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsJames D. Batson, Meriko L. Borogove, Gregory R. Chapman, Patrick L. Coffman, Anthony J. Guetta, Aram Lindahl, Andrew Rostaing
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for intelligently routing and managing audio signals within an electronic device is disclosed. The routing is responsive to a set of logical and physical policies which are stored in data tables which can be updated as needed.
Claims1
A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processing system of an electronic device, cause the processor to perform operations including:
- receiving multiple media playback requests from a plurality of applications executing on the electronic device, each playback request including a category associated with a plurality of default policies;
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- for at least one media playback request, determining a route for media associated with the playback request based at least in part on the default policies associated with the category.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.