Patent ID: 8706038

Claim:
An audio device, comprising: a first ear phone comprising; a Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile receiver configured to wirelessly receive signals in at least two high-fidelity audio channels in a first Bluetooth piconet: a speaker that plays at least a first one of the at least two high-fidelity audio channels; a Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile transmitter configured to wirelessly retransmit at least a second one of the at least two high-fidelity audio channels in a second Bluetooth piconet: and a housing that contains the Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile receiver and the speaker, the housing shaped to fit in or on an ear of a user, wherein the first ear phone is configured to operate with two separate Bluetooth addresses simultaneously, a first Bluetooth address for the first Bluetooth piconet and a second Bluetooth address for the second Bluetooth piconet. the first car phone configured to communicate the at least two high-fidelity audio channels in the two separate Bluetooth piconets simultaneously employing the two separate Bluetooth addresses, the first ear phone further configured to operate as a slave device in the first Bluetooth piconet while simultaneously operating as a master in the second Bluetooth piconet.