Patent ID: 7990410

Claim:
A method for displaying information for a videoconference, the method comprising: receiving a video signal from each of a plurality of endpoints of the videoconference; displaying the video signals from each of the plurality of endpoints concurrently on a display device; receiving status information from two or more of the endpoints of the videoconference, wherein the two or more endpoints includes a first endpoint, wherein the status information received from the first endpoint includes a first type of status information and a second type of status information; and concurrently displaying a plurality of status icons on the display device indicating the status information received from the two or more endpoints, wherein each of the status icons corresponds to one of the two or more endpoints, wherein each respective status icon is displayed proximally to the displayed video signal of the respective endpoint to which the respective status icon corresponds, wherein each respective status icon has a graphical appearance that graphically indicates at least a portion of the status information received from the respective endpoint to which the respective status icon corresponds; wherein said displaying the status icons comprises displaying a first status icon and a second status icon proximally to the video signal of the first endpoint, wherein the first status icon has a first graphical appearance that graphically indicates the first type of status information received from the first endpoint, and wherein the second status icon has a second graphical appearance that graphically indicates the second type of status information received from the first endpoint.