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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 08, 2012
Applicant:

Shoretel, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Edwin J. Basart, Los Altos, CA (US);

David B. Rucinski, Red Bank, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Shoretel, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/56 (2006.01); H04M 15/06 (2006.01); H04M 1/57 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 15/06 (2013.01); H04M 1/575 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, method and graphical user interface for determining a speaker's position and a generating a display showing the position of the speaker. In one embodiment, the system comprises a first speakerphone system and a second speakerphone system communicatively coupled to send and receive data. The speakerphone system comprises a display, an input device, a microphone array, a speaker, and a position processing module. The position processing module is coupled to receive acoustic signals from the microphone array. The position processing module uses these acoustic signals to determine a position of the speaker. The position information is then sent to other speakerphone system for presentation on the display.


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