Capturing and controlling access to muted content from a conference session

A non-transitory computer-readable memory medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• receive multimedia from a plurality of endpoints participating in a conference session;
• record and store the multimedia received from the plurality of endpoints participating in the conference session;
• detect a muting state at a particular endpoint, the muting state indicating that multimedia from the particular endpoint is not to be forwarded to the other endpoints participating in the conference session but that the multimedia at the particular endpoint during the muting state is to be recorded;
• and
• store information associated with the multimedia data to indicate the period of time during which the muting state was detected at the particular endpoint.

An apparatus comprising:

• a network interface unit configured to receive multimedia from a plurality of endpoints participating in a conference session;
• a processor configured to be coupled to the network interface unit, wherein the processor is configured to:
• receive the multimedia from the plurality of endpoints;
• record and store the multimedia received from the plurality of endpoints for the conference session;
• detect a muting state at a particular endpoint, the muting state indicating that multimedia from the particular endpoint is not to be forwarded to the other endpoints participating in the conference session but that the multimedia at the particular endpoint during the muting state is to be recorded;
• and
• store information associated with the multimedia data to indicate the muting state detected at the particular endpoint.