Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method, system, and program product for contacting conference call participants
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Application No.: US14080332Application Date: 2013-11-14
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Publication No.: US09106753B2Publication Date: 2015-08-11
- Inventor: Moon J. Kim , John E. Moore, Jr. , Eric C. Yee
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Hoffman Warnick LLC
- Agent Lisa Ulrich
- Main IPC: H04M3/56
- IPC: H04M3/56

Abstract:
The present invention provides a method, system, and program product for managing conference calls. Specifically, prospective conference call participants (e.g., moderators and/or invitees) will initially provide user profiles. A participant's profile will include, among other things, a set of contact numbers at which the participant can be reached. Thereafter, a moderator and a set of invitees of a conference call to be held are identified. This is typically done based on synchronization with a calendar application used to send and accept an invitation to the conference call. When the moderator later initiates the conference call, the present invention will access the profile of each invitee that accepted the invitation, and then call the invitees at the respective contact numbers set forth therein. When contact is made with an invitee, the call will be merged into the conference call with the moderator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140072113A1 METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTACTING CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPANTS Public/Granted day:2014-03-13
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