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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
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);
Howard Scott Zollinger, Lehi, UT (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);
Howard Scott Zollinger, Lehi, UT (US);
Harman International Industries, Incorporated, Northridge, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for management and control of audio related equipment. The system provides an architecture to manage, monitor, and control all of the audio related equipment in an audio system. A communication protocol used within the system allows standardized communication between the performance equipment mangers and the audio related devices, as well as device-to-device communication. The protocol allows users to add audio related devices to an audio system without performing a setup to configure communication between the devices.