ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,884, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to JRD COMMUNICATION (SHENZHEN) LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Audio playing method and device, storage medium, and mobile terminal" was invented by Taiyun Wu (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides an audio playing method, including: when an audio signal to be played is detected, storing the audio signal in a preset buffer while transmitting the audio signal to the auxiliary speaker to enable the auxiliary speaker to play the audio signal; initiating a timer to start timing in a process of storing the audio signal; and when a timing duration for which the timi...