Patent ID: 8233648

Claim:
An ad-hoc Adaptive Wireless Mobile Sound System, comprising: a) two or more mobile phone nodes; b) a Master device for sending a message/query to said two or more mobile phone nodes, to verify whether they hold in their memory a specific song/track and to learn their music playing capabilities; c) transmission means provided in the Master, for conveying to the mobile nodes that do not have a specific file in their memory, if any, a compressed audio stream of said file; d) software for conveying, in a streaming fashion, the compressed audio file over wireless connectivity; e) software provided in the Master for selecting, based on an answer to said query, a basic surround scheme/algorithm configuration that takes into account the mobile nodes capabilities; f) communication means provided in the Master to publish said basic surround scheme/algorithm configuration by which a playing role/channel is allocated for each of the mobile nodes; and g) means provided in the Master to synchronize the mobile nodes and to order them to play a stream audio file according to the basic surround scheme; wherein the Master is operable to support continuation of the music being played by a substantially similar sound distribution despite a loss of a non-executable node found incapable of executing its allocated role/channel during play time by performing a Smart Recovery operation to minimize impact of the loss of said non-executable node, the Master being operable during said Smart Recovery operation to select a compensating surround scheme, to allocate a compensating role/channel associated with said compensating scheme for said nodes other than said non-executable node, and to synchronize said other nodes so as to play said audio file, wherein sound parameters of at least one of said other nodes are different in said compensating surround scheme than in said basic surround scheme.