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Augustin Prats

Joakim Linde

Jason C Conn

Robert D Watson

David John Shaw

Thomas M Alsina

Lucas Christopher Newman

Brian J Tucker

Nicholas James Paulson

Andy Belk

Gregory B Novick

Nathan De Vries

Kurt R Stiehl

Jonathan Sarjeant Aase

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Jahan C Minoo

Jerzy S Guterman

Esge Brandt Andersen

Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan

Yacine Azmi

Andreas Edgar Schobel

Baptiste Pierre Paquier

Michael B Howes

Zachary C Rich

Axel Dominique Berny

Benjamin W Cook

Aarti Kumar

Robert William Mayor

Sriram Hariharan

Ashley N Saulsbury

Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta

Pejman Lotfali Kazemi

Duy N Phan

Tad J Dreier

Christopher S Wiebe

Christopher J Edmonds

Lukas Michael Marti

Shannon M Ma

Benjamin Adair Cousins

Michael Van Milligan

Rory L P McGuire

Elbert D Chen

Benjamin A Cousins

Joshua V Graessley

Andrew T Belk

Marc Jason Krochmal

Patrick Steven Piemonte

Glenn Donald MacGougan

Christopher C Jensen

Jay N Bruins

Renaud Lienhart

Joshua Graessley, Sr

Robert Doran Watson

Thomas Matthieu Alsina

Techniques for automatically configuring and controlling a digital media device are described. A digital media device can be configured or controlled by a mobile device, e.g., a smart mobile phone. When the digital media device is being configured, the digital media device can broadcast a signal, indicating that the digital media device is requesting configuration information from a mobile device. A mobile device located in proximity of the digital media device, upon detecting the signal, can perform various security checks to determine that the request is legitimate, and then open a communication channel with the digital media device. The mobile device can provide user preferences of the mobile device, as well as credentials for accessing and downloading remote content, to the digital media device through the communication channel. Upon receiving the configuration information, the digital media device can use parameters in the configuration information as its settings.

Controlling a media device using a mobile device

A housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Wireless earphone

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing a role swapping operation between a pair of non-tethered wireless ear buds after detecting a triggering event. Further, state information can be coordinated between devices, including in connection with performing a role swap between buds in a pair of wireless, untethered ear buds, where one wireless ear bud is in a primary role and is responsible for a connection with a companion device, and another wireless ear bud in the pair is in a secondary role.

Swapping roles between untethered wirelessly connected devices

Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for managing connections of user devices. For example, two source devices may be configured to maintain a data stream with one another. The data stream may enable the two source devices to identify one or more connections between each other and at least a third device. In response to receiving an event that indicates content to be provided to the third device, the data stream may be used by the source devices to configure their network connections with the third device.

Managing connections of a user device

A transport for data communication can be selected based on current data communication activity. A master device and a slave device can establish a control channel on one transport and one or more data channels. A master device can determine which transport should be used for the data channel(s) based on real-time status information about the data exchange and can coordinate with the slave device to switch the data channel(s) to a different transport when appropriate.

Dynamic transport switching in inter-device communication

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