Patent ID: 8839342

Claim:
A system, comprising: an audio video (AV) receiver with a wireless audio module (WAM) host and without a centralized audio amplifier functionality, the WAM host being implemented using a point-to-multipoint network topology using an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) host/device architecture, wherein the WAM host including a first microprocessor, an audio-in first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer coupled with a digital audio input, the audio-in FIFO buffer coupled with a first input and a first output of the first microprocessor, a first packet memory operative for packet storage and coupled with a second output of the first microprocessor, and an UWB host coupled with an output of the first packet memory and bi-directionally coupled with the first microprocessor, the UWB host operative to wirelessly transmit digital audio received on the digital audio input; and a plurality of wireless speakers each having a WAM device configured for bi-directional communication with the WAM host over a wireless link between each WAM device and the WAM host, wherein each wireless speaker includes an amplifier to amplify communications received from the WAM host and to which at least a part of the centralized audio amplifier functionality is distributed, wherein each WAM device including an UWB device operative to wirelessly receive the digital audio transmitted by the UWB host, a second packet memory operative for packet storage and coupled with an output of the UWB device, a second microprocessor bi-directionally coupled with the UWB device and with an output of the second packet memory, and an audio-out FIFO buffer coupled with an input and an output of the second microprocessor, and the audio-out FIFO buffer coupled with a digital audio output operative to output the digital audio.