Patent ID: 8706919

Claim:
An audio system, comprising: an audio device adapted to communicate with a processor-based host, the audio device having user-specific audio settings associated therewith, the user-specific audio settings being configurable; and an audio software application executable by the processor-based host, the audio software application configured to automatically identify the audio device being used by the current user from among a plurality of potential audio devices, and further configured to enable the processor-based host to store audio settings specific to each of a plurality of audio device users and to selectively retrieve and apply the stored audio settings specific to one of the plurality of the audio device users to the audio device, the one of the plurality of the audio device users being a current user of the audio device, the processor-based host being configured to process, in executing the audio software application, audio signals received from the audio device and audio signals transmitted to the audio device in accordance with the retrieved audio settings specific to the current user of the audio device, wherein the retrieved audio settings include at least one user-configurable audio setting utilized by the host in processing audio signals during reception from the audio device.