SELECTIVE MUTING FOR CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPANTS

Patent №

US 7,843,486

Granted

2010-11-30

Filed 2006

Owner

AVAYA TECHNOLOGY LLC

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11402120

The present invention is directed toward conference calls and methods, devices, and systems for facilitating a conference call. Specifically, the present invention allows participants of a conference call to selectively alter or mute other participants' voices in a conference call. More specifically, a number of participants may be associated with a single communication device and only a subset of those participants may have their voice signal altered or muted during the conference call.

SpeechH04N 7/15H04M 3/568H04N 7/142H04N 7/147H04N 21/42203H04N 21/4223H04N 21/4396H04M 2203/509

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language0.01
AI hardware0.01
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

AVAYA TECHNOLOGY LLC

assignment · 177860502

Assignors

BLAIR, COLIN, CHAN, KEVIN, LANG, ANDREW W., GENTLE, CHRISTOPHER REON, HEPWORTH, NEIL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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