Patent ID: 8416714

Claim:
A method of multimodal teleconferencing, the method implemented with a multimodal application and a multimodal teleconferencing module, a module of automated computing machinery operating on a server supporting a voice mode including accepting speech input from participants of the multimodal teleconference through a telephony interface, digitizing the speech, and providing digitized speech to a speech engine, the method comprising: receiving, by the multimodal teleconferencing module, a speech utterance from one of a plurality of participants in the multimodal teleconference; identifying, by the multimodal teleconferencing module, the participant making the speech utterance as a current speaker; retrieving, by the multimodal teleconferencing module from accounts for the current speaker, first content for display to the current speaker; retrieving, by the multimodal teleconferencing module from accounts for the current speaker, second content for display to one or more other participants in the multimodal teleconference, wherein at least a part of the first content is different from the second content; providing, by the multimodal teleconferencing module to a multimodal teleconferencing client for display to the current speaker, an identification of the speaker and the first content retrieved for the speaker; providing, by the multimodal teleconferencing module to one or more of multimodal teleconferencing clients for display to the other participants, an identification of the current speaker with the second content retrieved for the one or more other participants in the multimodal teleconferences; receiving, by the multimodal teleconferencing client of listening participant other than the current speaker, identification of another particular participant of interest; requesting, by the multimodal teleconferencing client from the multimodal teleconferencing module; third content of the another particular participant of interest; retrieving, by the multimodal teleconferencing module from accounts for the another particular participant of interest, third content of the another particular participant of interest; providing, by the multimodal teleconferencing module to a multimodal teleconferencing client for display to the listening participant, the third content of the another particular participant of interest; and displaying, by the multimodal teleconferencing client to the listening participant, the third content of the another particular participant of interest.