Patent ID: 8355490

Claim:
A method for detecting a noise level on a conference bridge telephone call, the method comprising: establishing via a first conference server, a plurality of two-way telephonic communication end user device connections between a plurality of end user devices and a plurality of conference ports, wherein each of the plurality of conference ports are in data communication with the first conference server; measuring a noise level on each one of the end user device connections; detecting a noisy end user device connection having a noise level above a threshold level on at least one of the plurality of end user device connections; executing predetermined mitigation steps to reduce the noise from the noisy end user device connection, wherein each of the end user device connections comprises a first data line between a first device of the plurality of end user devices and a first port of the plurality of conference ports and a second data line between the first port of the plurality of conference ports and the first conference server; disconnecting a first end user device from the first data line; in response to determining that the noise is reduced by disconnecting the first end user device from the first data line, reconnecting the first end user device to the first data line and sending a message to the first end user device indicating that the first end user device is a source of noise and to reconnect to the first conference server using a second end user device; in response to determining that the noise is not reduced by disconnecting the first end user device from the first data line, reconnecting the first end user device to the first data line and determining if the noise is reduced; in response to determining that the noise is not reduced by reconnecting the first end user device to the first data line, disconnecting the first conference port from the first conference server, and measuring a noise level for the first participant on a first connection between the first conference port and the server and rerouting the first end user device to a second conference port; and in response to determining that the noise is not reduced by disconnecting first conference port from the first conference server, rerouting the first end user device connection to a second conference port on the first conference server.