Selecting bridge telephone number for dial-out
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorGareth Lyndon Eadred Bridges
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Abstract
A conference system is provided that includes a processor configured to provision a plurality of bridge telephone numbers having a plurality of different country codes, and receive a dial-out request for one of a plurality of attendees of a conference meeting for connecting to the conference meeting. The dial-out request includes a target telephone number associated with a communication device of the one of the plurality of attendees. The processor is further configured to select one of the provisioned plurality of bridge telephone numbers based on a result of a match between at least a country code of the selected bridge telephone number and the target telephone number, and cause dial-out to the target telephone number from the selected bridge telephone number.
Claims20
A conference system comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- provision a plurality of bridge telephone numbers having a plurality of different country codes;
- receive a dial-out request for one of a plurality of attendees of a conference meeting for connecting to the conference meeting, the dial-out request including a target telephone number associated with a communication device of the one of the plurality of attendees;
- select one of the provisioned plurality of bridge telephone numbers based on a result of a match between at least a country code of the selected bridge telephone number and the target telephone number;
- and
- cause dial-out to the target telephone number from the selected bridge telephone number.
A method comprising:
- at a processor of a conference system:
- provisioning a plurality of bridge telephone numbers having a plurality of different country codes;
- receiving a dial-out request for one of the plurality of attendees of a conference meeting for connecting to the conference meeting, the dial-out request including a target telephone number associated with a communication device of the one of the plurality of attendees;
- selecting one of the provisioned plurality of bridge telephone numbers based on a result of a match between at least a country code of the selected bridge telephone number and the target telephone number;
- and
- causing dial-out to the target telephone number from the selected bridge telephone number.
A conference system comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- receive a dial-out request for one of a plurality of attendees of a conference meeting for connecting to the conference meeting, the dial-out request including a target telephone number associated with a communication device of the one of the plurality of attendees;
- select a bridge telephone number based on a result of a regular expression matching between a plurality of bridge telephone numbers and the target telephone number, the selected bridge telephone number having a longest sequence of matching numbers compared to other bridge telephone numbers of the plurality of bridge telephone numbers;
- and
- cause dial-out to the target telephone number from the selected bridge telephone number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.