Patent ID: 11889281
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. The method of claim 3, wherein the configuration parameters comprise, for each sink device of the plurality of sink devices:
a respective type of codec used for processing audio data to be transmitted to said sink device;
a respective bitrate associated to said type of codec; and
a respective audio channel parameter for playing an audio content corresponding to said audio data;
wherein the method further comprises:
receiving, for each sink device of the plurality of sink devices, a respective spatial position information for said sink device relative to other sink devices of the plurality of sink devices;
receiving, for each sink device of the plurality of sink devices, a respective set of numbers of channels supported by said device;
for each sink device among the plurality of sink devices, determining, based on the spatial position information received for each sink device of the plurality of sink devices:
a type of codec among the set of types of codec supported by said sink device;
a respective audio channel parameter, wherein said respective audio channel parameter is further determined based on the set of types of audio data supported by said sink device; and
a bitrate among a list of possible bitrates respectively associated to the determined type of codec; and

for each sink device among the plurality of sink devices, determining a respective bandwidth usage value, based on the determined type of codec, the determined audio channel parameter and the determined bitrate;
wherein a sum of the determined bandwidth usage values for all the sink devices of the plurality of sink devices is below the value of the maximum bandwidth usage parameter.