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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2008
Christopher M. Doran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ryan H. Hodgson, Discovery Bay, CA (US);
Christopher M. Doran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ryan H. Hodgson, Discovery Bay, CA (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and server are disclosed for providing floor control in a full-duplex communication session. When no participant currently holds the floor, a server grants the floor in response to receipt of a media stream from a participant, by outputting the participant's media more loudly than one or more other participants' media, while concurrently outputting media from multiple participants. Further, the server may grant levels of the floor with varying levels of loudness, perhaps based on an order in which the server receives media streams as implicit floor requests from the various participants.