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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2016
Bose Corporation, Framingham, MA (US);
Christine M. Hostage, Southborough, MA (US);
Naganagouda B. Patil, Ashland, MA (US);
Keith D. Martin, Westborough, MA (US);
David Paul Datta, Worcester, MA (US);
Nathan Holstein, Framingham, MA (US);
Douglas W. Young, Arlington, MA (US);
BOSE CORPORATION, Framingham, MA (US);
Abstract
A connection management system comprises a wireless speaker including first and second connectors for communicating with two selected audio content source devices, respectively, of at least three audio content source devices; a rules engine that establishes a set of conditions under which the at least three audio content source devices share the first and second connectors of the wireless speaker; and a device allocation system that forms a first communication path between one of the two selected audio content source devices and the first connector of the wireless speaker and forms a second communication path between another of the two selected audio content source devices and the second connector of the wireless speaker at a time in accordance with the set of conditions established by the rules engine.