Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Skype Limited

Torsten Rehberg

Dmytro Izotov

Christopher James Clare

Simon Tickner

Duncan Lamb

Umberto Abate

Priidu Zilmer

Hando Tint

Lyra Xharra Loxha

Ole Mahrt

Mike Bartlett

Bettina Sutter

Jaak Parik

James Edward Palmer

Dmytro Izotoy

Michael Bartlett

Michael John Winston Bartlett

Priidu Zilmber

Display screen with graphical user interface

A method of controlling a user interface to display participants of a call in dependence upon the participants' speech activity in the call, the method including monitoring the speech activity of the participants in the call and determining whether a participant is an active participant or an inactive participant in dependence on the participants' speech activity over a minimum time period of the call. In response to determining whether a participant is an active or inactive participant, an active participant is displayed in a first area of the user interface and an inactive participant is displayed in a second area of the user interface. The first area of the user interface is larger than the second area of the user interface.

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A method of sorting communication events at a user terminal connected to a communication network and executing a communication client arranged to be operable by a user is provided. The method comprises storing an event list comprising a list of identifiers, each identifier having information relating to at least one previously received communication event associated therewith, wherein the identifier identifies the initiator of the associated at least one previously received communication event and each identifier is listed only once in the list of identifiers. The event list is displayed in a user interface of the communication client. The method further comprises receiving an incoming communication event at the user terminal from an initiating user over the communication network and determining whether the initiating user is present in the list of identifiers stored in the event list. In the case that the initiating user is present in the list of identifiers, the event list is amended by adding information relating to the incoming communication event to the information relating to the at least one previously received communication event associated with the identifier of the initiating user. In the case that the initiating user is not present in the list of identifiers, a new entry is created at the top of the event list comprising an identifier for the initiating user and having information relating to the incoming communication event associated therewith. The display of the event list is updated in the user interface of the communication client.

Communication method and apparatus

User interface icon for a portion of a display screen

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London, United Kingdom

Torsten Rehberg