Patent ID: 8125508

Claim:
A method for displaying information in a videoconference, comprising: receiving video information, at a second endpoint, from a first endpoint of the videoconference, wherein the video information represents a scene at the first endpoint including images of at least two participants at the first endpoint; receiving first participant information for a first participant at the first endpoint, wherein the first participant information comprises distinguishing information associated with the first participant; analyzing the images in the scene at the first endpoint to determine which of the at least two participants is the first participant; displaying the video information on a display screen at a second endpoint of the videoconference; and displaying the first participant information for the first participant on the display screen at the second endpoint of the videoconference proximally to the image of the first participant such that the first participant information is visually associated with the image of the first participant and distinguishes the first participant from one or more other participants at the first endpoint.