Patent ID: 8516105
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: detecting, by a server, devices participating in a conference, wherein the devices are presented content conveyed over a network during the conference; monitoring each of the devices for presence of an audio signal originating from any one of the devices and sent to other devices during the conference that represents a voice transmission from a user of the device at which the audio signal originated; recording a representation of the audio signal from the devices as audio content of the conference; recording timestamps indicative of respective times at which the presence of the audio signal is detected and at which absence of the audio signal is detected; determining a level of attention to the conference of the user of each device from a measure of the presence and the absence of the audio signal; determining an activity status of each device with respect to participating in the conference based on a comparison of the attention level of the user of the device with a predetermined threshold; and displaying an indication of the activity status of each device in association with any corresponding timestamps.