Patent ID: 8843365

Claim:
A method performed in a communication terminal, comprising: obtaining an estimate of latency in a conversation between a local speaker and each of one or more remote speakers separated from the local speaker by a communication medium; obtaining a timing indication of at least an end of a conversational turn vocalized by the local speaker; displaying an outbound graphical indication of progress of at least the end-of-turn across the communication medium toward at least a given one of said remote speakers with a transit time across the medium derived from the latency estimate; estimating, from the latency estimate, an arrival time at which at least the given remote speaker will receive the end-of-turn; imputing a conversational turn vocalized by at least the given remote speaker, including a start-of-turn imputed from the pertinent arrival time; and displaying an inbound graphical indication of progress, across the communication medium toward the local speaker, of at least the start-of-turn from at least the given remote speaker with a transit time across the medium derived from the latency estimate.