Patent ID: 8310965

Claim:
An audio system comprising: an audio client device comprising: a buffer configured to receive a stream of samples of audio data; a clock generator configured to generate a first clock signal; a bus controller configured to (i) read samples from the buffer for transmission across a bus using the first clock signal and (ii) serially transmit each of the samples separated by a number of dummy bits, wherein the number of dummy bits is greater than one; a bus receiver configured to (i) receive samples from the bus controller and (ii) output a sampling clock along with each sample; a control module configured to (i) analyze activity of the buffer and (ii) adjust the number of dummy bits to synchronize the sampling clock with a remote sampling clock based on the activity; and a clock divider module configured to divide an internal clock signal by a divisor to create the first clock signal, wherein the control module is configured to selectively change the divisor to modify operation of the bus controller, wherein the control module is configured to change the divisor for transmission by the bus controller of every one out of S samples, and wherein S is an integer greater than one; and an access point comprising: an audio content module configured to generate a content signal based upon characteristics of an incoming media stream; a decoding module configured to decode the incoming media stream into an uncompressed pulse code modulation (PCM) media stream at a bit rate determined by the content signal; and a network interface configured to wirelessly transmit the stream of samples of audio data to the audio client device based on the uncompressed PCM media stream.