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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2008
Neil Hepworth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Roller Michaelis, Louisville, CO (US);
Neil Hepworth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Roller Michaelis, Louisville, CO (US);
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided that allows participants on the conference call to identify, and then mute or filter, a participant(s) responsible for introducing the noise, regardless of whether the noise is caused by transmission impairments or by the participant(s) being in a noisy location. For example, individual users could be able to press a 'test' button that could block each of the participants one at a time. This would allow the source of the noise to be identified. This 'test button' could be one or more of provided at the endpoint(s), be enabled through a web interface or, for example, through a dedicated conference call interface at the endpoint(s) or at the conference bridge. The blocking of each participant could occur through interaction with the main PBX using, for example, in-band signaling to the PBX. Once the source(s) of the noise is identified, noise mitigation can be applied as needed.