INTEGRATING ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION AS A SUBSYSTEM INTO AN EXISTING VIDEOCONFERENCE AND TELEPRESENCE SYSTEM

The present invention is embodied in a computer-readable program in a computer-readable medium for upgrading a video conference system, the computer-readable program comprising acoustic echo canceling control software having an application programming interface. The acoustic echo canceling control software is implemented on a computer system that operates the video conference system and macros are configured to couple the acoustic echo canceling control software to hardware components of the video conference system and to interface with the application programming interface. The macros are user configurable for providing real time adjustments of echo canceling runtime parameters of the hardware components during a video conference session.