Patent ID: 8817725

Claim:
A method in a first device having a first communication interface compatible with a first communication protocol for communications over a wireless medium and a second communication interface compatible with a second communication protocol for communications over the wireless medium, the method comprising: establishing a communication session over the wireless medium with an external device compatible with the first communication protocol; determining a maximum capacity of a buffer at the external device for receipt of audio samples to be transmitted in packets from the first device to the external device in an asynchronous connectionless link over the wireless medium; determining a playout rate at the external device of the audio samples from the buffer; determining that a future event at the first device will preempt or supplant transmission of the audio samples from the first device to the external device; determining a forecasted deficit in audio samples for playout at the buffer due to the future event; and scheduling access by the first communication interface to the wireless medium in advance of the future event for transmission of audio samples in packets from the first device to the external device to reduce the forecasted deficit.