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US 9,432,219 B2Granted
Voice energy collision back-off
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorsPaul V. Hubner, Joseph A. Hilburn, Scott J. Hoover
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Abstract
A device may perform audio signal collision detection configured to receive first audio information from a first device and receive second audio information from a second device over a communications network. The device may be further configured to identify a collision of the first audio information and the second audio information, and to address the collision by adjusting at least one of an audio attenuation level and a communications latency of the second audio information responsive to identification of the collision, and store the operational parameters to an adjustment profile system.
Claims27
A computing device, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a collision detection application executed by the processor and configured to cause the computing device to:
- receive first audio information generated by a first user of a first device;
- receive, over a communications network, second audio information generated by a second user of a second device;
- identify a collision of the first audio information of the first device and the second audio information of the second device based on a latency profile of end devices of the communication network that is updated according to network outages and scheduled maintenance, the latency profile including information on latencies between the end devices on the communications network and a user-definable setting for a communications latency, wherein the identified collision comprises a voice energy collision that includes an overlap in communications between at least two users and is different than a data collision associated with data corruption at a physical layer of an underlying transmission medium of the communications network;
- and
- perform an adjustment to the communications latency of the second audio information between a first collision adjustment level and a second collision adjustment level responsive to the identification of a predetermined amount of identified collisions.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a communications device executing a collision detection application on a processor, first audio information generated by a first user of a first device;
- receiving, by the communications device over a communications network, second audio information generated by a second user of a second device;
- identifying a collision of the first audio information of the first device and the second audio information of the second device based on a latency profile of end devices of the communication network that is updated according to network outages and scheduled maintenance, the latency profile including information on latencies between the end devices on the communications network and a user-definable setting for a communications latency, wherein the identified collision comprises a voice energy collision that includes an overlap in communications between at least two users and is different than a data collision associated with data corruption at a physical layer of an underlying transmission medium of the communications network;
- and
- performing an adjustment to the communications latency of the second audio information between a first collision adjustment level and a second collision adjustment level-responsive to the identification of the a predetermined amount of identified collisions.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a collision detection application software program, the collision detection application being executable to provide operations comprising:
- receiving, by a communications device executing a collision detection application on a processor, first audio information generated by a first user of a first device;
- receiving, by the communications device over a communications network, second audio information generated by a second user of a second device;
- identifying a collision of the first audio information of the first device and the second audio information of the second device based on a latency profile of end devices of the communication network that is updated according to network outages and scheduled maintenance, the latency profile including information on latencies between the end devices on the communications network and a user-definable setting for a communications latency, wherein the identified collision comprises a voice energy collision that includes an overlap in communications between at least two users and is different than a data collision associated with data corruption at a physical layer of an underlying transmission medium of the communications network;
- and
- performing an adjustment to the communications latency of the second audio information between a first collision adjustment level and a second collision adjustment level-responsive to the identification of a predetermined amount of identified collisions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.