Patent ID: 8713440

Claim:
A method, comprising: monitoring multiple audio connections established among multiple meeting consoles for a multimedia conference event; monitoring an audio connection quality parameter and an audio device parameter for at least one audio resource used for at least one of the audio connections, an audio resource comprising at least one of: a multimedia input device and a multimedia output device; determining that at least one of: the audio connection quality parameter for an audio connection is lower than a defined threshold value and the audio device parameter of the at least one audio resource is lower than a second defined threshold value, to form an audio quality warning state; determining whether any alternate communication interfaces are available to form an alternate audio connection to the multimedia conference event; and generating an operator message with the audio quality warning state and options to improve audio quality for the audio connection, the options comprising at least: an option to switch to the determined alternate audio connection, the determined alternate audio connection for transmitting voice information of a participant in the multimedia conference event, and an option to switch to an alternate audio resource.