What is the specific nature of the patent claims?
First of all, as a disclaimer, the language of the actual issued patent is the only legal, authoritative explanation. But to roughly (and unofficially) summarize in a nutshell, the innovation has to do with using Ethernet transceiver technology to transport digital audio and audio-related signals using a time division multiplexed scheme, along with the method used to efficiently sample and reconstruct the signals while maintaining their timing and synchronization end to end. It should be pointed out that this “innovation” is not one of technological prowess, but of reduction of complexity, making the system simpler in design and implementation than all other existing approaches. Ethernet transceivers were not designed to implement a time division multiplexed scheme. They were and are designed to implement Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect (CSMA/CD) in a packet store and forward scheme, to support the local area networking of computers. Putting together digital audio a
