Patent ID: 9293148
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G10L,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method for reducing noise in a shared media session, the method comprising: connecting to the shared media session, the shared media session including a plurality of participants, each of the participants being associated with one of a plurality of data feeds to the shared media session; receiving a first indication from one or more of the participants, the first indication indicates a background noise is present in the shared media session; incrementing a first counter for each of the first indication received from one or more of the plurality of participants; upon the first counter exceeding a first threshold, determining by a computer processor if the background noise is present in the shared media session; and selectively muting a first data feed of the plurality of data feeds to the shared media session such that the background noise is reduced upon the computer processor determining the background noise is present in the shared media session; wherein the first data feed includes an audio signal; and wherein selectively muting the first data feed includes selectively muting audio background noise from the first data feed.