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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2023
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Amer Aref Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Philip Ibo Ibrahima Drammeh, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for managing audio device handover in a communication system. The decision whether to handover a call from one acoustic assembly to a candidate handover acoustic assembly during the call is based, at least in part, on a determined power ratio associated with the candidate handover acoustic assembly. In this manner, the handover is based on a corresponding likelihood that a user on the call has moved into an acoustic proximity to the candidate handover acoustic assembly rather than simply being based on a physical distance of a user relative to the candidate handover acoustic assembly or signal strength between the user's device and the candidate handover acoustic assembly.