Patent ID: 9590678
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04H

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing a plurality of ports in a first mixer system, the first mixer system comprising: the plurality of ports each configured to input a signal or output a signal and to process the signal according to a parameter; and a plurality of processing channels each configured to process a signal, the method comprising: a step of maintaining, for each of the plurality of ports, real port data which includes a parameter for processing the signal; a step of maintaining, for each of the plurality of processing channels, virtual port data which includes a parameter for a port of the plurality of ports to be connected with the processing channel; a step of connecting, in response to a given connection instruction, between a selected one of the plurality of ports and a selected one of the plurality of processing channels; a step of setting, in response to the given connection instruction, a value of the real port data maintained for the selected port connected with the selected processing channel to a value of the virtual port data maintained for the selected processing channel; a step of accepting an operation to change a value of the real port data maintained for the selected port; a step of placing the selected port under control of the first mixer system; and a step of releasing a port unconnected with the selected processing channel from control of the first mixer system.