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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Aarti Kumar, Los Altos, CA (US);
Bob Bradley, San Jose, CA (US);
Natalia A. Fornshell, Campbell, CA (US);
Deepak Iyer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Astrid Yi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael J. Giles, San Jose, CA (US);
Sriram Hariharan, San Jose, CA (US);
Kang Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jonathan A. Bennett, San Francisco, CA (US);
Taylor G. Carrigan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony J. Guetta, San Carlos, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for routing communication to a common audio output device connected to each of two or more audio signal source devices. For each of the two or more audio signal source devices, a set of inputs are assessed. The set of inputs include: an operational state of the audio signal source device, an activity the audio signal source device, an audio-producing application being executed by the audio signal source device, and a degree of user activity with the audio-producing application being executed by the audio signal source. At a point in time, an audio routing score is generated for each of the two or more audio signal source devices according to a weighted calculation of the set of inputs based on the assessing. Finally, an audio signal routing decision is made, to route an audio signal from one of the two or more audio signal source devices to the audio output device, based on the audio routing score for each of the two or more audio signal source devices.