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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2018
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for managing streamed audio communication sessions between user devices () configured to send streamed data indicative of received audio contributions from respective participants in a multiple-participant audio communication session via a communications network to one or more other user devices () for conversion to audio representations of said received audio contributions for other participants. The method comprises monitoring audio contributions from respective participants, and in response to detection therefrom that a first participant is beginning to make an audio contribution at a first one of said user devices () after a period of silence, providing a signal for at least one of said other user devices () indicating that the first participant is beginning to make an audio contribution; and in response to receipt at said at least one other user device () of such a signal, triggering a predetermined audible indication for a participant at said at least one other user device () that said first participant is beginning to make an audio contribution.