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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:
Jul. 19, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 16, 2018
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Girardier, Poisy, FR;

Julien Goupy, Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, FR;

Etienne Ruffieux, Paris, FR;

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/60 (2022.01); H04B 17/27 (2015.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04W 76/25 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04B 17/27 (2015.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04L 65/602 (2013.01); H04W 4/025 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 76/25 (2018.02);
Abstract

Disclosed is a device for controlling Bluetooth multimedia devices, the device including a Bluetooth chip configured to establish a point to multipoint link from the Bluetooth chip to a plurality of Bluetooth multimedia devices, and to stream a multimedia stream to at least one of the plurality of Bluetooth multimedia devices. The Bluetooth chip is further configured to: retrieve from each Bluetooth multimedia device an indication of a signal strength of each link between the device and the corresponding Bluetooth multimedia device; and select at least one Bluetooth multimedia device to which stream the multimedia stream based on the retrieved indications of signal strength.


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