Patent ID: 9374653
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04R,H04S

Claim Text:
1. A method for a multi-channel wireless speaker system by executing computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the method comprises the steps of: providing a plurality of speaker units; providing an audio receiver, wherein the audio receiver includes a wireless access point and an audio interface; probing each of the plurality of speaker units through the wireless access point in order to identify a speaker channel for each of the plurality of speaker units; compiling the speaker channel for each of the plurality of speaker units into a sound system configuration; prompting an external host through the audio interface to configure a plurality of compatible audio channels for the sound system configuration; retrieving an audio frame from the external host through the audio interface, wherein the audio frame includes audio samples for each of the plurality of compatible audio channels; broadcasting the audio frame from the wireless access point to the plurality of speaker units through a wireless private network; extracting the audio sample corresponding to a specific channel from the audio frame for each of the plurality of speaker units, wherein the specific channel is one of the plurality of compatible audio channels and corresponds to the speaker channel for each of the plurality of speaker units; and sounding the audio sample for each of the plurality of speaker units.