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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2005
Richard Allen Kreifeldt, South Jordan, UT (US);
John Lee, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
William A. Plunkett, Granger, IN (US);
Timothy J. Shuttleworth, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Andrew Stevenson, Hemel Hempstead, GB;
Bruce Vander Werf, Elkhart, IN (US);
Richard Allen Kreifeldt, South Jordan, UT (US);
John Lee, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
William A. Plunkett, Granger, IN (US);
Timothy J. Shuttleworth, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Andrew Stevenson, Hemel Hempstead, GB;
Bruce Vander Werf, Elkhart, IN (US);
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Northridge, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for determination of the functionality of an audio-related device that is operable in an audio system includes a performance equipment manager. The performance equipment manager may receive from an audio-related device an audio node structure representative of the corresponding audio-related device. The received audio node structure may be reviewed to determine if all the components included in the audio node structure are predefined within the performance equipment manager. For those components that are known, no discovery is necessary and actual values of changeable parameters in the audio-related device may be obtained. For unknown components of the audio node structure, the performance equipment manager may undertake discovery to identify additional portions of the audio node structure, and/or attributes related to the unknown components, in order to obtain actual values of changeable parameters related to the unknown components.