Patent ID: 7822192
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of processing events in a telephone conference in which a plurality of telephone devices are connected via a plurality of channels, a channel per telephone device, the method comprising: detecting real and echo commands in audio data received from each telephone device of the plurality of telephone devices during the conference, thereby obtaining detected commands; categorizing each detected command in a real command category or in an echo command category based at least in part on one or more characteristics of said each detected command; when said each detected command is categorized in the real command category, executing code based on type of said each detected command and the telephone device from which said each detected command originated, the code affecting state of a telephone system that connects the plurality of telephone devices in the conference; and when said each detected command is categorized in the echo command category, ignoring said each detected command.