Audio Streaming Control Linking for Synchronized Device States
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Solution Overview
Problem
Audio streaming systems lack robust control over individual devices in a streaming chain, leading to issues when a device changes state without alerting others, causing interruptions in the audio stream.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for user-defined and user-controlled management of streaming audio, enabling simultaneous control of multiple audio streaming components through a computing device with an audio function module, allowing users to conjoin and manage functions like mute or push-to-talk across devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If each audio device operates independently with its own control switch, then device autonomy and ease of operation are improved, but system reliability and coordination between devices deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where each audio device notifies other devices in the chain when its state changes. This allows devices to be aware of mute states, push-to-talk states, and other functional changes, enabling them to adjust accordingly to maintain continuous audio streaming.
Solution Approach 2:
A control function management system acts as an intermediary between independent audio devices. This intermediary coordinates control functions across devices, allowing them to operate autonomously while maintaining system-wide reliability through centralized coordination of state changes.
2Device complexity
If a device changes state without notifying others, then device complexity is reduced, but loss of information about system state increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system requires devices to send notifications to the control function management system when their state changes. This feedback loop ensures that all devices maintain awareness of the current system state without requiring complex peer-to-peer communication mechanisms at each device.
Solution Approach 2:
The control function management system serves as an intermediary that collects state change information from all devices and distributes relevant information to other devices. This centralizes the information management burden, keeping individual devices simple while maintaining comprehensive state awareness across the system.
3Reliability
If centralized control is implemented across all audio devices, then system reliability and coordination are improved, but device complexity and ease of operation worsen
Solution Approach 1:
A dedicated control function management system acts as an intermediary between audio devices and users. This intermediary handles the complexity of coordinating control functions across devices, allowing individual audio devices to remain relatively simple while achieving system-wide reliability through centralized management.
4Reliability
If centralized control is implemented, then system coordination is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The control function management system acts as an intermediary that simplifies user interaction by providing a unified interface for controlling multiple audio devices. Users can manage control functions across the entire audio stream through this single point of control, maintaining ease of operation while achieving system-wide coordination.
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AI summary
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for enabling user-defined and user-controlled management of streaming audio. An apparatus includes a processor, and coupled to the processor, a memory that stores code executable by the processor to enable a user to selectively conjoin at least one control function for a first audio streaming component and a second audio streaming component and to enable the user to simultaneously control the first audio streaming component and the second audio streaming component with the at least one control function, and a user interface.