Methods and systems for participant sourcing indication in multi-party conferencing and for audio source discrimination
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- receiving an identifier of a first participant of a plurality of participants of a multi-party conference;
receiving a first signal indicating that the first participant is providing information to the multi-party conference; and
displaying a first indication that the first participant is providing information to the multi-party conference in response to the received first signal.
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Abstract
Indications of which participant is providing information during a multi-party conference. Each participant has equipment to display information being transferred during the conference. A sourcing signaler residing in the participant equipment provides a signal that indicates the identity of its participant when this participant is providing information to the conference. The source indicators of the other participant equipment receive the signal and cause a UI to indicate that the participant identified by the received signal is providing information (e.g. the UI can causes the identifier to change appearance). An audio discriminator is used to distinguish between an acoustic signal that was generated by a person speaking from that generated in a band-limited manner. The audio discriminator analyzes the spectrum of detected audio signals and generates several parameters from the spectrum and from past determinations to determine the source of an audio signal on a frame-by-frame basis.
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95 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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receiving an identifier of a first participant of a plurality of participants of a multi-party conference;
receiving a first signal indicating that the first participant is providing information to the multi-party conference; and
displaying a first indication that the first participant is providing information to the multi-party conference in response to the received first signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A computer-accessible medium having computer-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
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receiving an identifier of a first participant of a plurality of participants of a multi-party conference;
receiving a first signal indicating that the first participant is providing information to the multi-party conference; and
displaying a first indication that the first participant is providing information to the multi-party conference in response to the received first signal. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A system for multi-party conferencing for a plurality of participants, the system comprising:
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a user interface (UI); and
an information source indicator to cause the UI to display an identifier corresponding to a participant in response to receiving a signal that indicates that the participant is providing information to the multi-party conference, wherein the displayed identifier has a property that indicates that the participant is providing information to the multi-party conference. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. A method, comprising:
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detecting an acoustic signal;
determining whether the detected acoustic signal was generated by a person speaking; and
providing a signal indicating that the detected acoustic signal was generated by the person. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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70. A computer-accessible medium having computer-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
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detecting an acoustic signal;
determining whether the detected acoustic signal was generated by a person speaking; and
providing a signal indicating that the detected acoustic signal was generated by the person. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90)
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91. A system, comprising:
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an audio discriminator to determine whether a detected acoustic signal was generated by a person in speaking; and
a sourcing signaler to selectively provide a signal indicating that the person is speaking in response to a determination by the audio discriminator that the detected acoustic signal was generated by the person in speaking. - View Dependent Claims (92, 93, 94, 95)
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