Ring network of bluetooth speakers
AssigneeAvnera Corporation
InventorsTheodore Hetke, John Speth
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Abstract
A method for re-forming a complete ring network of a plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, after a speaker has left an original ring of speakers, the method including detecting that the speaker has left the ring, and reestablishing the ring without the departed speaker. The detection may include a timeout detection if the speaker left without notice, or include receiving notice that the speaker intends to leave.
Claims17
In a group of BLUETOOTH speakers coupled in a ring, where each speaker member of the ring includes a stored address of an upstream BLUETOOTH speaker within the ring and a stored address of a downstream BLUETOOTH speaker within the ring, a method, comprising:
- detecting that a speaker has created a broken ring by leaving the ring;
- generating at least one message to determine which speaker left the ring;
- sending the generated message in a first direction around the ring;
- establishing an Asynchronous ConnectionLess (ACL) link between a first speaker and a speaker in the ring that was adjacent to the speaker that left the ring;
- and
- receiving, at the first speaker, a BLUETOOTH Serial Port Profile (SPP) connection from the speaker in the ring that was adjacent to the speaker that left the ring to connect the first speaker into a second BLUETOOTH ring network having a different number of members than the original ring.
In a group of BLUETOOTH speakers coupled in a ring, where each speaker member of the ring includes a stored address of an upstream BLUETOOTH speaker within the ring and a stored address of a downstream BLUETOOTH speaker within the ring, a method, comprising:
- sending, by a speaker leaving the ring of speakers, a message that a speaker in the ring of speakers is leaving the ring of speakers;
- receiving the message;
- and
- in response to receiving the message,
- establishing an Asynchronous ConnectionLess (ACL) link between a first speaker and a speaker in the ring that was adjacent to the speaker that left the ring, and
- receiving, at the first speaker, a BLUETOOTH Serial Port Profile (SPP) connection from the speaker in the ring that was adjacent to the speaker that left the ring to connect the first speaker into a second BLUETOOTH ring network having a different number of members than the original ring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.