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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Lei Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Xiaojun Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Vusthla Sunil Reddy, Cupertino, CA (US);

Peter M. Agboh, Burlingame, CA (US);

Mohit Narang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 88/04 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 88/04 (2013.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04L 2001/0097 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

Exemplary embodiments include a system having a first wireless audio output device and a second wireless audio output device. One of the first or second audio output devices is configured to one of connect as a slave to a source device in a first piconet and connect as a master to the other one of the first or second audio output devices in a second piconet. The one of the first or second wireless audio output devices determines whether an audio packet transmitted by the source device via the first piconet was received by the first wireless audio output device and the second wireless audio output device, and, when at least one of the first wireless audio output device or the second wireless audio output device did not receive the audio packet, the audio packet is exchanged between the first and second wireless audio output devices via the second piconet.


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