Patent ID: 8649494

Claim:
A method for alerting a participant in a teleconference, wherein the method comprises: activating a mute function, by a CPU, in response to a command received from the participant; tracking an audio of the teleconference; determining a level of alertness of the participant to the teleconference based upon a position of the participant relative to a telephone; determining whether the participant's name is detected in the audio; wherein in the event the participant's name is detected: determining whether a context in which the participant was addressed requires the participant to respond; wherein in the event the participant is required to respond: alerting the participant that the participant has been summoned and is required to make a response; providing a conversation summarization to the participant; providing a conversation summarization to the participant, wherein an amount of the conversation summarization is based on the level of alertness of the participant at the time of the alerting; and deactivating the mute function.