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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2006
Eric Harvard Cosky, Encinitas, CA (US);
Eric Harvard Cosky, Encinitas, CA (US);
Sony Online Entertainment LLC, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The described systems regulate the transmission and playback of multiple streams of audio data, e.g., for a multiplayer game, and provide sequential playback of audio, buffered while the listener is listening to a different stream, time-compressed if necessary. The systems thus solve a problem of users 'talking over each other' by: (1) regulating access to audio channels; and (2) treating the spoken audio as distinct blocks so as to play the messages, e.g., from multiple channels, sequentially to users. The messages may be played back at a later time at time-compressed rates or aborted as directed by the user or by a separate automated process.