The patent describes a method of providing acoustical response predictions for a modelled loudspeaker system over a communications network. In the case of MAPP Online, an Internet-enabled client-server system lets modelling software running on a powerful server at Meyer Sound's headquarters provide the computational "back end" to GUI software running on the user's local computer. The patent is the 33rd US or foreign patent issued in Meyer Sound's name since the company's founding in 1979.
The MAPP Online system generates accurate predictions of the performance of Meyer Sound loudspeakers in a given configuration within a venue. The system is available free to qualified users, who need only download to their laptop or other computer a Java applet, which generates the GUI and communicates to the server.
The user can define attributes of a venue (walls, floor, surface composition, etc.), then specify the choice and configuration of loudspeakers. Once the scenario is defined and a prediction requested, the user's computer transmits parameter data describing the scenario over the Internet to the server, which then draws on a database of loudspeaker profiles and performs the calculations.
(Jim Evans)
