Apparatus and method for displaying a name of a speaker on a telecommunication conference call

An apparatus for providing information about a telecommunication conference call, comprising:

• a conferencing circuit;
• a plurality of telecommunication sets;
• a computer for transmitting signals to a switching network and the conferencing circuit to establish a telecommunication conference call;
• the switching network responsive to the signals from the computer for connecting the plurality of telecommunication sets to the conferencing circuit;
• conferencing circuit responsive to the signals from the computer and audio information from each of the telecommunication sets converting the audio information to uncompressed audio information, determining a root mean squared value for the uncompressed audio information from each of the telecommunication sets, designating the active one of the plurality of telecommunication sets based on one at the plurality of telecommunication sets having the largest root mean squared value to identify an active one of the plurality of telecommunication sets used by a speaker on the telecommunication conference call and transmitting the identification to the computer;
• the computer responsive to the identification for determining a speaker identification and for transmitting the speaker identification to each of the plurality of telecommunication sets.

A processor-readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions configured for:

• establishing a telecommunication conference call among a plurality of telecommunication sets;
• receiving audio information from each of the plurality of telecommunication sets;
• uncompressing the received audio information from each of the plurality of telecommunication sets;
• computing a root mean squared value for the uncompressed audio information for each of the plurality of telecommunication sets;
• and
• selecting a one of the plurality of telecommunication sets having the largest root mean squared value as an active one of the plurality of telecommunication sets being used by a present speaker on telecommunication call;
• accessing a table with the identification of the determined active one of the plurality of telecommunication sets to obtain an identity of a speaker assigned to the active one of the plurality of telecommunication sets;
• transmitting the identity of the speaker to each of the plurality of telecommunication sets;
• and
• displaying the identity of the speaker on a display of each of the plurality of telecommunication sets by each of the plurality of telecommunication sets.