US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for managing an environment including both voice communications and streaming audio communications" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,306, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Systems and methods for managing an environment including both voice communications and streaming audio communications" was invented by Jacobus Cornelis Haartsen (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing an environment (e.g., a call center) including both voice users and streaming audio users (e.g., streaming music) using a common wireless protocol, e.g., Bluetooth. The system may include multiple base stations communicating with multiple user devices (e.g., wireless headsets) to define a...