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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2012
Yanghua Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Weidong Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Biren Gandhi, San Jose, CA (US);
Raghurama Bhat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Joseph Fouad Khouri, San Jose, CA (US);
John Joseph Houston, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Thomas Toombs, San Jose, CA (US);
Yanghua Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Weidong Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Biren Gandhi, San Jose, CA (US);
Raghurama Bhat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Joseph Fouad Khouri, San Jose, CA (US);
John Joseph Houston, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian Thomas Toombs, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving requests to join a conference from a plurality of user devices proximate a first endpoint. The requests include a username. The method also includes receiving an audio signal for the conference from the first endpoint. The first endpoint is operable to capture audio proximate the first endpoint. The method also includes transmitting the audio signal to a second endpoint, remote from the first endpoint. The method also includes identifying, by a processor, an active speaker proximate the first endpoint based on information received from the plurality of user devices.