Patent ID: 9420434
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. In a wireless audio conferencing system connected to an external network, a method of generating a warning message, comprising: detecting and recording by a base station, associated with the wireless audio conferencing system, one or more operational state characteristics associated with a first one of a plurality of portable parts linked to it during a communication session, the communication session being established between the base station and a remote audio conferencing system, and the plurality of portable parts being comprised of at least one wireless loudspeaker and at least two or more wireless microphones all of which are wirelessly linked to the base station during the communication session; terminating the communication session, and the base station using the recorded one or more operational state characteristics associated with the first one portable part to determine that it is not returned to a charging tray for charging; and generating and sending to an audio conferencing administrative process running on a server connected to the external network or to another one of the other plurality of the portable parts linked to the base station a warning message indicating that the first one of the plurality of the portable parts is not returned to the charging tray for charging at the termination of the communication session; wherein the server connected to the external network is not associated with the wireless audio conferencing system, and the operational state characteristics associated with the first one of the plurality of the portable parts is any one or more of an indication that the first one of the plurality of the portable parts is within range or is not within range of the base station, is turned on, is turned off, the battery is charged, the battery charge is low, and if a number of active portable part session links does not match a number of terminated portable part session links at the termination of the communication session.