# US 10,873,665 B1 · Conference participant location and device identification > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,873,665 B1 - Document ID: US10873665B1 - Status: Granted - Kind: B1 - Application number: 16/686,746 - Filed: 2019-11-18 - Granted: 2020-12-22 - Earliest claimed: 2019-11-18 - Assignees: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. - Applicants: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. - Inventors: Matthew William Fardig; Dane Hixson; Tobias Christensen; Shawn Sharp - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10873665B1 ## CPC - H04M 3/565: {relating to time schedule aspects} - H04L 12/1818: {Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties} - H04L 12/1822: {Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission} - H04L 12/1831: {Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status} - H04N 7/147: {Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals (selecting H04Q)} - H04N 7/152: {Multipoint control units therefor} - H04M 3/42348: {Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target} - H04M 2203/5063: Centrally initiated conference, i.e. conference server dials participants - H04M 2242/30: Determination of the location of a subscriber - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in a conferencing application, an indication to contact a conference participant; accessing, using a processor, context data associated with the conference participant, wherein the context data identifies a likely location of the conference participant; identifying, at the likely location, an electronic device associated with the conference participant; and contacting the conference participant via the electronic device. Other aspects are described and claimed. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method, comprising: receiving, in a conferencing application, an indication to contact a conference participant during a conference, wherein the receiving the indication comprises: identifying a professional role associated with the conference participant; and determining that the conference participant is not present in the conference at a point in the conference related to the professional role; wherein the point in the conference is not a beginning of the conference; accessing, using a processor, context data associated with the conference participant; predicting, using the context data, a location of the conference participant; identifying, at the location, an electronic device associated with the conference participant; and contacting the conference participant via the electronic device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the indication comprises identifying that the conference participant has not joined a conference associated with the conferencing application after a predetermined period of time has elapsed from a beginning of the conference. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the indication comprises receiving a contact request from the conference participant or another conference attendee. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the context data corresponds to calendar data associated with the conference participant. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the context data corresponds to prior conferencing habits of the conference participant. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the context data corresponds to the professional role associated with the conference participant and wherein the electronic device is associated with the professional role. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the context data corresponds to conference participant input data. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the likely location comprises a plurality of likely locations and wherein the electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices and wherein the identifying comprises identifying, at each of the plurality of likely locations, one of the plurality of electronic devices associated with the conference participant. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the contacting comprises contacting the conference participant on each one of the plurality of electronic devices substantially simultaneously. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising: sorting the plurality of likely locations based on a likely presence of the conference participant; and wherein the contacting comprises contacting the conference participant on each one of the plurality of electronic device sequentially based on the sorting. ### Claim 11 An information handling device, comprising: a processor; a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to: receive, in a conferencing application, an indication to contact a conference participant during a conference, wherein the instructions executable by the processor to receive the indication comprise instructions executable by the processor to: identify a professional role associated with the conference participant; and determine that the conference participant is not present in the conference at a point in the conference related to the professional role; wherein the point in the conference is not a beginning of the conference; access context data associated with the conference participant predict, using the context data, a location of the conference participant; identify, at the location, an electronic device associated with the conference participant; and contact the conference participant via the electronic device. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the instructions executable by the processor to receive the indication comprise instructions executable by the processor to identify that the conference participant has not joined a conference associated with the conferencing application after a predetermined period of time has elapsed from a beginning of the conference. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the context data corresponds to calendar data associated with the conference participant. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the context data corresponds to prior conferencing habits of the conference participant. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the context data corresponds to the professional role associated with the conference participant and wherein the electronic device is associated with the professional role. ### Claim 16 (depends on 11) The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the context data corresponds to conference participant input data. ### Claim 17 (depends on 11) The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the likely location comprises a plurality of likely locations and wherein the electronic device comprises a plurality of electronic devices and wherein the instructions executable by the processor to identify comprise instructions executable by the processor to identify, at each of the plurality of likely locations, one of the plurality of electronic devices associated with the conference participant. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The information handling device of claim 17, wherein the instructions executable by the processor to contact comprise instructions executable by the processor to contact the conference participant on each one of the plurality of electronic devices substantially simultaneously. ### Claim 19 (depends on 11) The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the instructions are further executable by the processor to: sort the plurality of likely locations based on a likely presence of the conference participant; and wherein the instructions executable by the processor to contact comprise instructions executable by the processor to contact the conference participant on each one of the plurality of electronic device sequentially based on the sorting. ### Claim 20 A non-transitory storage device that stores code, the code being executable by a processor and comprising: code that receives, in a conferencing application, an indication to contact a conference participant during a conference, wherein the code that receives the indication comprises code that identifies a professional role associated with the conference participant; and determine that the conference participant is not present in the conference at a point in the conference related to the professional role; wherein the point in the conference is not a beginning of the conference; code that accesses context data associated with the conference participant; code that predicts, using the context data, a location of the conference participant; code that identifies, at the location, an electronic device associated with the conference participant; and code that contacts the conference participant via the electronic device.