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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2017
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Peter James Hughes, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed for managing digitally-streamed audio communication sessions between user devices (). The user devices are configured to send digitally-streamed data () indicative of received audio contributions from respective participants in a multiple-participant audio communication session to a multiple-participant audio communication session controller () for processing and onward streaming of data () indicative of the received audio contributions from the session controller () to one or more other user devices () for conversion to audio representations for respective other participants of the received audio contributions. The data () streamed from the session controller to the respective user devices has one or more audio parameters affecting the audio representations provided by the user devices to the participants using them.