Ring network of bluetooth speakers
AssigneeAvnera Corporation
InventorsTheodore Hetke, John Speth
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Abstract
A method for forming a complete ring network of a plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, the method including populating a configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of an upstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, populating the configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of a downstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, and coupling an audio source to one Bluetooth® speaker of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers.
Claims26
A method for forming a complete ring network of a plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, the method comprising:
- populating a configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of an upstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers;
- populating the configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of a downstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers;
- coupling at least one audio source to one Bluetooth® speaker of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers;
- receiving an audio signal from the audio source at the one Bluetooth® speaker coupled to the audio source;
- sending the audio signal from the one Bluetooth® speaker coupled to the audio source to a downstream Bluetooth® speaker;
- sending a tail signal from the one Bluetooth® speaker coupled to the audio source to an upstream Bluetooth® speaker;
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- sending the audio signal from the downstream Bluetooth® speaker to each additional downstream Bluetooth® speaker of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers until one of the downstream Bluetooth® speakers receives the audio signal and the tail signal.
A method for forming a complete ring network of a plurality of Bluetooth® speakers, the method comprising:
- populating a configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of an upstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers;
- populating the configurable speaker register of each of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers with an address of a downstream Bluetooth® speaker that is in the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers;
- coupling at least one audio source to one Bluetooth® speaker of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers;
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- sending a delay signal around the ring network to adjust a delay of a corresponding audio signal at each Bluetooth® speaker by a fixed value based on node count from a ringleader Bluetooth® speaker,
- wherein one Bluetooth® speaker of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers does not delay an output of the audio signal and at least one of the remaining Bluetooth® speakers of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers delays an output of the audio signal by a different time period.
A system, comprising:
- a plurality of Bluetooth® speakers coupled in a ring formation, each Bluetooth® speaker configured to store identifying information of the Bluetooth® speaker upstream and the Bluetooth® speaker downstream;
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- an audio source coupled to one Bluetooth® speaker of the plurality of Bluetooth® speakers,
- wherein each of the Bluetooth® speakers comprises an upstream Serial Port Profile (SPP) client port and a downstream SPP client port, and
- wherein the Bluetooth® speaker coupled to the audio source is designated as a ringleader by transmitting a ringleader message via the coupled Bluetooth® speaker's downstream SPP client port and by transmitting a corresponding tail message via the coupled Bluetooth® speaker's upstream SPP client port to cause the ringleader message to be dropped upon traversing the ring formation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.