Patent ID: 9742823
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method for identifying intended recipients of remarks from a speaker in a communications session established among a plurality of participant devices, comprising: receiving an indication of a first participant to whom remarks are to be addressed; determining identification information associated with the first participant; transmitting the identification information associated with the first participant to one or more of the plurality of participant devices; identifying a current speaker in the communication session; determining identification information associated with the current speaker in the communication session; transmitting the identification information associated with the current speaker to the plurality of participant devices; identifying a signal for a media transmission from each of the plurality of devices; determining that a sound intensity of one or more signals is above a predefined threshold; identifying from the determined one or more signals with the sound intensity above a predefined threshold, the signal with a greatest sound intensity; and identifying participant information associated with the device of the plurality of devices identified as having the signal with the greatest sound intensity.