Patent ID: 9331887
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for performing silence suppression in a computer network voice conference having a plurality of participants, comprising: obtaining voice activity scores computed on an ongoing basis from a combination of a computed energy of one or more sequential frames of a local participant's audio signal and a voiceness score computed from the corresponding sequential frames; providing each computed voice activity score of the local participant's audio signal to one or more remote participants; obtaining voice activity scores from one or more of the remote participants, each voice activity score being computed on an ongoing basis from a computed energy of one or more sequential frames of audio signals of the remote participants; and wherein any of the participants evaluate each voice activity score obtained from any other participants relative to their own voice activity scores to make ongoing independent decisions as to whether to transmit one or more sequential audio signal frames to each of the other participants.