×

Web-enabled conferencing and meeting implementations with flexible user calling features

  • US 9,967,403 B1
  • Filed: 10/06/2015
  • Issued: 05/08/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A method implemented by a computer processing arrangement and for providing conferencing services between participants, the method comprising:

  • providing a web-accessible virtual meeting interface;

    receiving meeting scheduling data from the virtual meeting interface, the meeting scheduling data including participant identifying information, a list of selectable dial in numbers, a selection of a meeting host, a selection of a meeting moderator and meeting time information;

    initiating a telephone call, in response to the meeting time information and the participant identifying information, with at least one participant identified by the participant identifying information;

    receiving calls from participants, the calls made to dial in numbers selected using the virtual meeting interface;

    merging, in response to the at least one participant answering the telephone call, audio from the telephone call with audio from other participants including participants calling the dial in numbers;

    accessing information in a call profile that includes a plurality of telephone numbers for the at least one participant identified by the participant identifying information;

    selecting one of the plurality of telephone numbers based on factors indicated in the call profile and initiating a telephone call with the selected telephone number;

    providing the merged audio to the at least one participant and the other participants;

    providing to the meeting moderator, in response to the selection of the meeting moderator and using the virtual meeting interface, a viewable list of participants and control profiles that define access rights for the participants;

    modifying the viewable list by moving participants into different control profiles in response to a procedure of dragging and dropping the participant into a different control profile; and

    in response to input from the at least one participant, moving the at least one participant from the meeting with the other participants to a sub-meeting with a subset of the other participants.

View all claims
  • 5 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×