Patent ID: 8761404

Claim:
A method for presenting audio data using a wireless home entertainment hub, the method comprising: obtaining a registration of each device in a plurality of devices with a wireless home entertainment hub based on a coordinated identifier that is unique for each device, wherein the plurality of devices include at least one musical sink device and at least one musical source device; transmitting, by the wireless home entertainment hub, a first instruction to the at least one musical source device to transmit audio data to a musical instrument mixing device; controlling, by the wireless home entertainment hub, the musical instrument mixing device to downmix the audio data based on available channels in a current sink device configuration; transmitting, by the wireless home entertainment hub, a second instruction to the at least one musical sink device to receive downmixed audio data from the musical instrument mixing device; and transmitting, by the wireless home entertainment hub, a third instruction to the at least one musical source device to increment an internal reference count based on transmitting the downmixed audio data to the at least one musical sink device, wherein the internal reference count describes a number of zones, from a plurality of zones, receiving the downmixed audio data, wherein each zone comprises at least one sink device.