Patent ID: 8401176

Claim:
A method comprising: implementing a telephony application of an electronic device, the electronic device comprising one of a first personal computer and a peripheral device for use with a second personal computer, the telephony application being a computer-implemented telephony application of the electronic device; transmitting a sound adapter output signal of a sound adapter of the electronic device to a speaker of the electronic device for output via an acoustic echo path to a microphone of the electronic device, the sound adapter output signal of the sound adapter for training an acoustic echo canceller in a background of the telephony application, the sound adapter output signal corresponding to a non-training audio application of the electronic device, the non-training audio application being a computer-implemented non-training audio application of the electronic device, the acoustic echo canceller being connected to the speaker, to the microphone and to the sound adapter; and the acoustic echo canceller receiving an echo path signal from the microphone via the acoustic echo path and the acoustic echo canceller receiving the sound adapter output signal from the sound adapter to the speaker when the sound adapter is outputting the sound adapter output signal.