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Methods and systems for configuring and providing conference calls

  • US 8,503,650 B2
  • Filed: 11/24/2003
  • Issued: 08/06/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing a conference call, comprising:

  • creating, by a subscriber user on a user terminal, a conference call event in a calendar application;

    automatically configuring a conference call based on the conference call event;

    identifying, without user intervention, participant users associated with the conference call event;

    notifying the subscriber user that the conference call has been configured;

    contacting the participant users at the time and date of the conference call event;

    providing the participant users with one or more options for declining the conference call, the one or more options including an option for declining participant users to specify a period of time to delay the conference call, wherein the declining participant users are contacted again for the conference call after the specified period of time expires;

    receiving responses from the participant users accepting or declining the conference call;

    establishing the conference call among the accepting participant users and the subscriber user based on the received responses;

    receiving, from the declining participant users, selections of one or more of the options for declining the conference call;

    recording audio information associated with the subscriber user and the participant users'"'"' participation during the conference call;

    converting at least some of the audio information to text information; and

    recording the text information in a transcript reflecting a textual temporal based representation of communications that have taken place between the users during the conference call.

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