Cisco Technology, Inc.

John Joseph Houston

Joseph Khouri

Weidong Chen

Yanghua Liu

Raghurama Bhat

Biren Gandhi

Brian Thomas Toombs

In one embodiment, a method includes receiving requests to join a conference from a plurality of user devices proximate a first endpoint. The requests include a username. The method also includes receiving an audio signal for the conference from the first endpoint. The first endpoint is operable to capture audio proximate the first endpoint. The method also includes transmitting the audio signal to a second endpoint, remote from the first endpoint. The method also includes identifying, by a processor, an active speaker proximate the first endpoint based on information received from the plurality of user devices.

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John Joseph Houston