摘要 |
PURPOSE: An audio conference bridge is provided to let an offending conferee participate in an audio conference again without an operator's assistance, not disturbing other conferees, and remove a music-on-hold. CONSTITUTION: The audio conference bridge operates for providing a graphic user interface(GUI) through terminal equipments of more than one conferee. The GUI composes a graphic display of the conferee, a graphic display of an audio sound level control received from each conferee, and a graphic display of an anti-music-on-hold related to each conferee. Operating or selecting the anti-music-on-hold related to the offending conferee prevents an audio from the offending conferee being merged to an audio channel, which connects other conferees to the audio conference bridge, by informing to the audio conferees and sending a signal. When this occasion happens, the audio conference bridge generates a message generator, which the offending conferee sends a message to inform a temporary hang-up to the offending conferee, a touch-tone detector detecting whether a reconnection signal is sent from the offending conferee, and reconnects the offending conferee to the audio conferee automatically when the reconnection signal is detected.
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