Patent ID: 7973857

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a teleconference server, context fingerprints from each of one or more participating terminals connected to a teleconference, wherein the context fingerprints characterize a physical environment in which the one or more participating terminals are located; evaluating, at the teleconference server, the context fingerprints to determine physical location similarities between the one or more participating terminals including: determining a physical distance between a first participating terminal and a second participating terminal using the context fingerprints received from each, and determining whether the determined physical distance is within a threshold physical distance; and grouping, by the teleconference server, the one or more participating terminals into one or more location groups based on the evaluations of the context fingerprints, wherein each of the one or more location groups represents a physical location, wherein grouping the one or more participating terminals includes: grouping the first and second participating terminals in the same location group in response to determining that the determined physical distance is within the threshold physical distance.