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Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Gianluca Gargaro, Rome, IT;

Marco De Gregorio, Rome, IT;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04R 29/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/80 (2013.01); G10L 25/60 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04R 29/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A solution is proposed for monitoring quality of a conference call. Corresponding methods are implemented on a client computing machine of a participant to the conference call, a server computing machine for managing the conference call and a computing system comprising the server computing machine and a plurality of client computing machines, respectively. One or more test signals (having corresponding test frequencies within a human audible range) are generated by each client computing machine in the mute mode without audible effects on the participant. The test signals are transmitted from the client computing machine to the server computing machine. The server computing machine verifies the quality of the conference call for the participant according to a comparison of one or more received signals (received from the client computing machine) with the test signals. Computer programs and computer program products for performing the corresponding methods are also proposed.


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