Patent ID: 7499969

Claim:
A user interface for an audio conferencing client application of a first participant, the audio conferencing client application executed by a computer to couple the application to an audio conference including an audio conferencing client application of at least one other participant, the user interface comprising: a first user interface element configured to indicate a request to speak by the first participant, the audio conferencing client application configured to transmit an indicator of the request to speak to the audio conferencing client of each other participant, the indicator configured to be transmitted separately from an audio signal of the first participant's speech; and for each other participant, a second user interface element configured to be displayed in proximity to an identifier of the other participant in response to the audio conferencing client application receiving an indicator of the request to speak by the other participant from the audio conferencing client application of the other participant the second user interface element configured to be displayed separately from an output of an audio signal of the other participant's speech.