Patent ID: 9191218
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a multiple participant communication session, the method comprising: identifying a current speaker to other ones of a plurality of participants in the multiple participant communication session; receiving a speaker rating input from at least one of the plurality of participants that corresponds to a helpfulness of the current speaker and at least one of a plurality of communication contexts; generating a plurality of speaker reputation scores responsive to receiving the speaker rating input, individual ones of the speaker reputation scores corresponding to at least one of the communication contexts; generating a reputation-based speaker hierarchy for the plurality of participants using at least one of the speaker reputation scores; and regulating a contribution signal strength corresponding to ones of the plurality of participants that is positively correlated with the reputation-based speaker hierarchy; regulating a relative communication output from ones of the plurality of participants based on the plurality of speaker reputation scores and based on the at least one of the communication contexts or a change in the at least one of the communication contexts, the at least one of the communication contexts being identified by at least one context tag; and wherein at least one of identifying the current speaker, receiving the speaker rating input, generating the speaker reputation scores, generating the reputation-based speaker hierarchy, regulating the contribution signal strength and regulating the relative communication output are performed using at least one processor.