Patent ID: 7917174

Claim:
A host device for configuring an acoustic baseband circuit to compensate for acoustic characteristics of an acoustic device, the host device comprising: the acoustic baseband circuit; a short range communications system; a communications subsystem; memory; and a processor, wherein the host device is configured to: receive, using the short range communications system, are identifier from the acoustic device; retrieve, from the memory of the host device, a digital signal processor (‘DSP’) acoustic frequency response for the acoustic device and a code-decode (‘CODEC’) acoustic gain parameter for the acoustic device from acoustic device characteristics stored on the host device if the host device recognizes the identifier of the acoustic device; connect, using the communications subsystem, to a remote database, if the acoustic device characteristics are not stored in the memory of the host device, to retrieve the DSP acoustic frequency response and CODEC acoustic gain parameter for the acoustic device identified by the identifier; and configure the acoustic baseband circuit of the host device with the DSP frequency response and CODEC acoustic gain parameter retrieved.