Patent ID: 8856272
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04S

Abstract:
1. A cloud access server for audio rendering accessed by an audio device, comprising: a communication port; and a processor coupled to a communication port, that identifies original audio content in response to receipt of an audio content request at the communication port where the audio content request has associated with it a device profile and an environment profile and directs the processing of the original audio content into processed audio content in response to attributes contained in both the device profile and the environment profile after which the processor directs the transmission of the processed audio content to the audio device that originated the audio content request, where the device profile indicates a first audio encoding format and the original audio content is encoded in a second audio encoding format, and where the processor further directs the transcoding of the original audio content from the second audio encoding format to a first audio encoding format.