Patent ID: 8867722

Claim:
A method for providing media source selection for a media conference, comprising: receiving respective information characterizing audio content from each of a plurality of media sources for a conference call, the plurality of media sources comprising at least one media source selected for a current time interval and at least one media source not selected for the current time interval; determining how long each of the at least one media source selected for the current time interval has been a selected media source; when one or more of the at least one media source selected for the current time interval has been selected for longer than a predetermined duration, weighting the respective information characterizing the audio content from the one or more of the at least one media source that has been selected for longer than the predetermined duration to reduce an influence of respective information characterizing the audio content from the one or more of the at least one media source selected for more than the predetermined duration relative to respective information characterizing audio content from any media source not selected for more than the predetermined duration; selecting for a next time interval at least one media source from the plurality of media sources based on the respective information characterizing the audio content from the plurality of media sources and the weighting of the respective information characterizing the audio content from the one or more of the at least one media source that has been selected for longer than the predetermined duration; and providing, to at least one output for the conference call, a respective media signal for the at least one media source selected for the next time interval.