System for audio-related device communication
First Claim
1. An audio system comprising:
- an audio-related device that includes a hierarchical audio node structure indicative of the functionality of the audio-related device, where the hierarchical audio node structure includes components representative of changeable parameters in the audio-related device;
a performance equipment manager configured to communicate with the audio-related device and provide a user interface to monitor and control the changeable parameters of the audio-related device based on the hierarchal node structure; and
where the performance equipment manager is further configured to be selectively subscribed to one or more of the changeable parameters in the audio-related device so that when a value of any one of the changeable parameters changes, the audio-related device is configured to provide the changed value to the performance equipment manager.
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Abstract
A system for communication among audio-related devices in an audio system includes a performance equipment manager that communicates with audio-related devices to monitor and control changeable parameters of a corresponding audio-related device. Each of the audio-related devices includes an audio node structure having components that are representative of the functionality of the respective audio-related device. Some of the components are representative of changeable parameters in the audio-related device. The performance equipment manager is configured to be selectively subscribed to one or more of the changeable parameters so that when a predefined condition occurs, the audio-related device is configured to automatically provide the current value of the changeable parameter(s) to the performance equipment manager.
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53 Claims
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1. An audio system comprising:
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an audio-related device that includes a hierarchical audio node structure indicative of the functionality of the audio-related device, where the hierarchical audio node structure includes components representative of changeable parameters in the audio-related device;
a performance equipment manager configured to communicate with the audio-related device and provide a user interface to monitor and control the changeable parameters of the audio-related device based on the hierarchal node structure; and
where the performance equipment manager is further configured to be selectively subscribed to one or more of the changeable parameters in the audio-related device so that when a value of any one of the changeable parameters changes, the audio-related device is configured to provide the changed value to the performance equipment manager. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An audio system comprising:
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a first audio-related device that includes a first audio node structure representative of functionality of the first audio-related device;
a second audio-related device in communication with the first audio-related device, where the second audio-related device includes a second audio node structure representative of functionality of the second audio-related device;
where the first and second audio node structures each include a plurality of components representative of changeable parameters in the respective first and second audio-related devices; and
where a first changeable parameter included in the first audio-related device is configurable with a subscription request to be mapped to a second changeable parameter included in the second audio-related device so that a value of the second changeable parameter is communicated to the first changeable parameter in the first audio-related device. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. An audio system comprising:
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a first audio-related device that includes an interface module that comprises an audio stream module and an audio services module; and
a second audio-related device in communication with the first audio-related device, where the second audio-related device includes an interface module that comprises an audio stream module and an audio services module;
where streaming audio is communicable between the interface modules of the respective first and second audio-related devices based on configuration settings of the respective audio stream modules that consist essentially of a channel count, a bit depth, a sample frequency and a latency, and where the audio services modules of the first and second audio-related devices are configured to automatically determine identical configuration settings for the first and second audio-related devices. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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27. An audio system comprising:
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a performance equipment manager; and
an audio-related device configured to communicate with the performance equipment manager;
where the audio-related device includes a plurality of audio-related settings represented with an audio node structure; and
where the performance equipment manager is configured to be selectively subscribed to at least one of the audio-related settings with a subscription message indicative of the portion of the audio node structure that represents the at least one of the audio-related settings, and the audio-related device is configured to maintain a list of audio-related settings to which the performance equipment manager is subscribed. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A method of audio-related device communication in an audio system, the method comprising:
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identifying a pre-determined condition;
identifying a component in a first audio node structure of a first audio-related device that is a storage location of a changeable value;
subscribing with a subscription message to a changeable parameter in a second audio node structure in a second audio-related device to obtain a value of the changeable parameter when the pre-determined condition is present;
receiving the value of the changeable parameter and indication of the component when the predetermined condition is met;
storing the value of the changeable parameter in the storage location; and
displaying the value on a display of the first audio-related device. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A method of audio-related device communication in an audio system, the method comprising:
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storing a venue table that comprises a plurality of different groups of settings for a plurality of changeable parameters included in an audio-related device, where each of the changeable parameters are identified by components included in an audio node structure that is indicative of functionality of the audio-related device;
receiving a venue setting message that is indicative of one of the groups of settings;
automatically retrieving the indicated one of the groups of settings from the venue table; and
automatically updating the current values of the changeable parameters with the groups of settings based on correspondence between the components included in the audio node structure and each of the settings. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49)
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50. An audio system comprising:
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a first audio-related device that includes a first audio node structure representative of functionality of the first audio-related device, where the first audio node structure includes a first state variable;
a second audio-related device in communication with the first audio-related device, where the second audio-related device includes a second audio node structure representative of functionality of the second audio-related device, where the second audio node structure includes a second state variable with a data type unknown to the first audio related device;
where, based on a subscription message, the first audio related device is configured to set the second state variable, and the second audio-related device is configured to output a value of the second state variable responsive to the second state variable being set, and where the value is a human readable string. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53)
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