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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2004
James Thomas Dellamorte, Sr., West Barnstable, MA (US);
John O. Dellamorte, Jr., Sandwich, MA (US);
James Thomas DellaMorte, Sr., West Barnstable, MA (US);
John O. DellaMorte, Jr., Sandwich, MA (US);
Excel Switching Corporation, Hyanni, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing conferencing services in a converged services platform operable to perform a variety of enhanced telecommunications services. The advanced conferencing algorithm embodying the invention incorporates techniques in each of four signal processing categories including noise gating, echo suppression, automatic gain control and DTMF clamping are employed to produce a high perceptual quality conference output for a conference of several hundred participants, and which is computationally cost effective.