Patent ID: 7023965

Claim:
A method for identification of speakers on a telecommunication conference call, comprising the steps of: establishing the telecommunication conference call among a plurality of telecommunication sets; receiving audio information from each of the plurality of telecommunication sets; uncompressing the received audio information from each of the plurality of telecommunication sets; computing a root mean squared value for the uncompressed audio information for each of the plurality of telecommunication sets; and selecting a one of the plurality of telecommunication sets having the largest root mean squared value as an active one of the plurality of telecommunication sets being used by a present speaker on telecommunication call; accessing a table with the identification of the determined active one of the plurality of telecommunication sets to obtain an identity of a speaker assigned to the active one of the plurality of telecommunication sets; transmitting the identity of the speaker to each of the plurality of telecommunication sets; and displaying the identity of the speaker on a display of each of the plurality of telecommunication sets by each of the plurality of telecommunication sets.