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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Anatoli Gostev, San Jose, CA (US);
Louay Alsakka, Cupertino, CA (US);
Axel Berny, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Tad Dreier, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Joachim Hammerschmidt, Sonoma, CA (US);
Lei Li, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xiaojun Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Vusthla Sunil Reddy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Peter M. Agboh, Bend, OR (US);
Mohit Narang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Exemplary embodiments include a system having a first wireless audio output device configured to connect to a source device via a first piconet and a second wireless audio output device configured to connect to the first wireless audio output device via a second piconet. A schedule of the first piconet includes a plurality of slots associated with an audio packet, a first subset of the slots used by the source device to transmit the audio packet, the first and second wireless audio output devices tuning to the first piconet to listen for the transmissions of the audio packet, and when, after a last one of the first subset of slots, the first or second wireless audio output devices did not receive the audio packet, the first and second wireless audio output devices exchange information via the second piconet such that the both wireless audio output device receive the audio packet.