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Dynamic locale based aggregation of full duplex media streams

  • US 9,641,576 B2
  • Filed: 12/23/2014
  • Issued: 05/02/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for processing audio signals of a conference call comprising:

  • detecting, at a conferencing server, a plurality of audio clients connecting to the conference call from a same locale;

    selecting an audio client aggregation node at the same locale;

    connecting the plurality of audio clients to the audio client aggregation node;

    receiving at the audio client aggregation node, microphone audio signals from the connected audio clients, each microphone audio signal containing an audio timestamp based on an audio client timebase;

    synchronizing, at the audio client aggregation node, the microphone audio signals using a clock of the audio client aggregation node and the audio timestamp based on the audio client timebase;

    receiving, at the audio client aggregation node, speaker audio signals destined for the connected audio clients; and

    synchronizing, at the audio client aggregation node, the speaker audio signals.

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