Patent ID: 8767942

Claim:
A turret switching system for broadcasting data streams to a plurality of telephony devices via a plurality of talk paths, the system comprising: at least one media server; and a plurality of telephony devices communicatively coupled to the at least one media server via a plurality of respective talk paths, each talk path having a corresponding predetermined connection type, wherein each telephony device is constructed to receive an output audio data stream from the at least one media server via the respective talk path, and each telephony device is constructed to send an input audio data stream to the at least one media server via the respective talk path, wherein the at least one media server comprises at least one mixer that combines input audio data streams received from the plurality of telephony devices to generate output audio data streams for sending to the plurality of telephony devices in association with a call, wherein for each talk path associated with the call, a determination is made as to whether to mute the respective output audio data stream, based on the respective predetermined connection type, and wherein responsive to a determination that the respective output audio data stream for a talk path is to be muted, the respective output audio data stream is muted.