Patent ID: 7440810

Claim:
An apparatus for supporting multiple multi-channel media applications, the apparatus comprising: a display; a processor, coupled to the display; a memory coupled to the processor and having code executable by the processor to display a user interface on the display, wherein the user interface displays representations of at least two multi-channel media applications to allow a user to select one of the multi-channel media applications and make channel-to-connector mapping selections, wherein at least one channel can be mapped by the user to any of at least two channel connectors and each channel is mapped to a separate output channel connector; output channel connectors; and a signal processing system, coupled to the output channel connectors, the signal processing system comprising: one or more signal input connectors to receive one or more input signals, wherein each input signal comprises at least one of the media input channels generated by the one or more multi-channel media applications and at least one of the input signals comprises two or more media input channels generated by the one or more multi-channel media applications; an input to receive first user selections, wherein each of the first user selections selects one of the multi-channel media applications, and to receive second user selections separate from the first user selections, wherein each of the second user selections selects channel-to-connector mapping for the multi-channel media application selected by one of the first user selections to map the media input channels to output channel connectors; a signal processor to process the media input channels; and a connector mapping system to map the media channels processed by the signal processor to the output channel connectors pursuant to the second user selections.