Patent ID: 7843486

Claim:
A method of facilitating a conference call, comprising: receiving, by a processor, a sound signal; determining, by the processor, a relative spatial location of a source of the received sound signal; based on the determined location of the source of the received sound signal processing the received sound signal by performing at least one of the following steps: selectively altering, by the processor, the received sound signal in a first manner in the event that the received sound signal is received from a first determined location; selectively altering, by the processor, the received sound signal in a second manner in the event that the received sound signal is received from a second determined location, wherein the first and second manners are different; creating, by the processor, a virtual channel for the received sound signal; creating, by the processor, sound parameters for the virtual channel; storing, by the processor, the selective alteration in the sound parameters; and transmitting, by the processor, the virtual channel with the stored sound parameters.