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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
May. 17, 2000
Applicants:
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alex Yiu-man Chan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alex Yiu-Man Chan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A communications system contains a network linking a number of communications devices participating in a communications session. During the communications session, the communications devices share information indicating when participants are speaking. Based on this information, the communications devices control output levels to suppress the output of spurious signals during the communications session.