Patent ID: 7742587
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A conference call server to allow a plurality of communications devices to communicate, the server comprising: a plurality of mixers configured to receive correspondingly a plurality of incoming audio streams from the plurality of communications devices, and to process the incoming audio streams to output a plurality of combinations of the incoming audio streams, each combination being output to a corresponding one of the plurality of the communications devices; and a controller coupled to the mixers and configured to receive one or more control signals correspondingly associated with one or more of the plurality of communications devices and in response, for one or more of the plurality of combinations, control one or more of the mixers to set one or more mix levels for one or more audio streams within the one or more combinations, including receipt of a first control signal from a first of the communications devices indicating allowance of a first and a second audio stream associated with the first and a second communications device respectively to be included in a first and a second combination for the first and second communications devices respectively but withheld from all other combinations for all other communications devices, and in response, control mix levels of the audio streams in the combinations accordingly.