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Wireless audio device provisioning

a technology of audio devices and wireless architecture, applied in the direction of wireless architecture usage, instruments, and assessing restrictions, to achieve the effect of increasing the flexibility of positioning of audio devices

Inactive Publication Date: 2020-04-02
HARMAN INT IND INC
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This approach automates the connection process, ensuring accurate provisioning and reducing the time required to connect multiple audio devices to a network, enhancing user experience by eliminating the need for manual configuration of each device.

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Some attempts to provide information for connecting an audio device to a network (e.g., provisioning information) may include time-consuming, laborious, and error-prone processes of manually sending the information to each audio device that requests a connection to a central access point.

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[0009]Audio output environments may vary widely—from in-home entertainment systems to large-scale arena sound systems. In each case, the audio output environment may include multiple audio output devices (such as speakers or headphones), control audio devices (such as mixers), and / or other audio equipment. In order to provide distributed control over audio equipment in an efficient manner, the audio devices may be connected to the same network as one another (e.g., a wireless network). In this way, instructions may be sent from control audio devices to audio output devices and / or otherwise sent between audio devices in a given audio output environment. While such communication may enable instructions to be efficiently sent between devices, an initialization routine for connecting the audio devices to the network may be time-consuming and may rely on a large amount of user input and effort.

[0010]For example, in some systems, an initialization routine may include connecting each audio...

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Abstract

Embodiments are disclosed for an example computing device for connecting audio devices to a network. In some embodiments, a computing device may store instructions executable to connect to one or more audio devices, and send the one or more audio devices provisioning information that causes the one or more audio devices to scan for additional audio devices and propagate the provisioning information to the additional audio devices. The provisioning information may also cause the one or more audio devices to connect to a central access point by sending a connection request based on the provisioning information to the central access point.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 62 / 377,486, entitled “WIRELESS AUDIO DEVICE PROVISIONING,” filed on Aug. 19, 2016, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes.FIELD[0002]The disclosure relates to connecting one or more audio devices to a wireless network and / or a wireless network access point.BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY[0003]Wireless audio devices may be connected to a network in order to receive audio data, commands, and / or other communication data from the network (e.g., from other audio devices or computing devices). For example, wireless audio devices may be controlled from a centralized mixing device to adjust volume, equalization, and / or other settings of the audio devices to provide desired audio playback. Wireless connectivity of the audio devices may increase flexibility of positioning of the audio devices relative to audio devices having wired connecti...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): H04W48/16H04W76/11G06F3/16H04W8/00H04W40/24
CPCH04W48/10H04W40/246G06F3/16H04W76/11H04W48/16H04W84/18H04W4/80H04W8/005G08C17/02H04L41/0846H04Q9/00H04W24/04H04Q2209/40H04W76/10H04W12/02H04W48/08
Inventor MILHAM, DONERICKSON, DARRELL BRENT
Owner HARMAN INT IND INC
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