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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert D. Watson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony Guetta, San Carlos, CA (US);
David John Shaw, San Diego, CA (US);
Craig Dooley, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Chris Saari, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Novick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nathan De Vries, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sriram Hariharan, San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick Ian Bernhard, San Jose, CA (US);
Dana McLaughlin, Waikoloa, HI (US);
Jeffrey Chandler Moore, Belmont, CA (US);
Patrick Lee Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jonathan Anderson Bennett, San Francisco, CA (US);
Deepak Iyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Albert Riley Howard, Jr., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jason Conn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods to communicate audio data from either an active wireless device or a requesting wireless device to one or more audio reproduction devices that are simultaneously communicatively coupled to both the active wireless device and to the requesting wireless device are disclosed. Responsive to a request from the requesting wireless device to transmit audio data to the one or more audio reproduction devices, the active wireless device determines whether to transmit audio data from the requesting wireless device based at least in part on an audio status of the active wireless device and a set of predetermined arbitration criteria that prioritizes among applications and operating system processes that generate the audio data.