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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:
Oct. 07, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2022
Applicant:

Dish Network L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);

Inventors:

Amber Bellerjeau, Littleton, CO (US);

Luke E. Vanduyn, Conifer, CO (US);

Caroline Condon, Denver, CO (US);

Assignee:

DISH Network L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for casting to multiple wireless speakers, the method including: receiving at a casting device a request from a user device to cast audio signals to multiple wireless speakers, wherein the audio signals include multiple channels; sending an inquiry request; receiving responses to the inquiry request from multiple wireless speakers; connecting to a plurality of speakers from the multiple wireless speakers; sending test signals to each of the plurality of speakers; receiving information from a microphone for each of the one or more test signals output from each of the plurality of speakers, wherein the microphone is a component of a remote control associated with the casting device; selecting one or more of the multiple channels to send to each of the plurality of speakers based on the received information; and sending the corresponding selected one or more of the multiple channels to each of the plurality of speakers.


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