Patent ID: 8275843

Claim:
A computing device, comprising: a processing unit; a system memory connected to the processing unit, the system memory including instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to: create a resource module configured to acquire resource information relating to resources of the computing device and configured to acquire quality of experience information corresponding to parameters including one or more of echo, jitter, and mean opinion score that are related to a quality of audio a user of the computing device experiences when the computing device is connected to a conference; create a roster module configured to display a participant list including resource information relating to resources of a plurality of other computing devices connected to the conference and display quality of experience information corresponding to parameters including one or more of echo, jitter, and mean opinion score that are related to a quality of audio a user of each of the plurality of other computing devices experiences when connected to the conference; and create a policy module configured to evaluate the resource information and quality of experience information acquired by the client resource module against rules of a conference policy and implement actions based on a determination that the computing device is non-compliant with one or more of the rules of the conference policy to control quality of audio during the conference.