Patent ID: 8320824

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: an audio receiver with a wireless audio module (WAM) host, the WAM host including a High-Definition Multimedia interface (“HDMI”) over which to communicate HDMI data representing audio signals wirelessly; a plurality of wireless speakers each having a WAM device to enable bidirectional communications with the WAM host to receive the HDMI data representing the audio signals wirelessly; and a wireless input/output device configured to receive the audio signals at a configuration position from each wireless speaker in at least a subset of the plurality of wireless speakers and to transmit audio information wirelessly to the WAM host to automatically configure the subset of the plurality of wireless speakers to optimize audio parameters of the wireless speakers, the WAM host being configured to use the audio information from the wireless input/output device to optimize the audio parameters relative to the configuration position from which the wireless input/output device transmits to the WAM host, wherein a wireless speaker of the plurality of wireless speakers is automatically configured to optimize an audio parameter as a function of a distance of the wireless speaker.