Patent ID: 8233632

Claim:
A method for processing multi-channel audio streams comprising: receiving at a first single-channel audio component located at a near-end channel of an audio signal transmission path, signal-processing input from a first far-end channel of the signal transmission path, the first single-channel audio component being one of a group of first single-channel audio components each located at a different near-end channel of the signal transmission path and each receiving the signal-processing input from the first far-end channel; processing an audio signal at the first single-channel audio component using the signal-processing input from the first far-end channel; and sending the processed audio signal from the first single-channel audio component to a second single-channel audio component located at the near-end channel, the second single-channel audio component being one of a group of second single-channel audio components each located at a different near-end channel of the signal transmission path and each receiving signal-processing input from a second far-end channel of the signal transmission path, wherein the group of first single-channel audio components includes each of the first components of the near-end channels and the group of second single-channel audio components includes each of the second components of the near-end channels.