DATA-DRIVEN MEDIA MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20170255635A1
• Filed: 05/22/2017
• Published: 09/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Batson, James D., Borogove, Meriko L., Chapman, Gregory R., Coffman, Patrick L., Guetta, Anthony J., Lindahl, Aram, Rostaing, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 10,430,152 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/60 of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path

Abstract

A method and apparatus for intelligently routing and managing audio signals within an electronic device is disclosed. The routing is responsive to a set of logical and physical policies which are stored in data tables which can be updated as needed.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processing system of an electronic device, cause the processor to perform operations including:

receiving multiple media playback requests from a plurality of applications executing on the electronic device, each playback request including a category associated with a plurality of default policies; and

for at least one media playback request, determining a route for media associated with the playback request based at least in part on the default policies associated with the category.