System and method for facilitating setup and joining of conference calls
AssigneeYouMail, Inc.
InventorsAlexander E. Quilici, Michael J. Rudolph
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Abstract
A system for managing a conference call, the system comprising a call answering server configured to receive a call from an attendee device that has been forwarded from a host device, identify a conference call associated with the host device for the attendee device to join, receive a request from the attendee device to join the conference call, and connect the attendee device to the conference call.
Claims20
A method performed by a call answering server for establishing a conference call, the method comprising:
- receiving an unanswered call directed to a contact number of a user device, the contact number being a number used to directly communicate with the user device, wherein the unanswered call originated from an attendee device to the user device and has been forwarded from the user device to a call answering server based on instructions stored on the user device for forwarding unanswered calls;
- determining that a conference call with the user device is accessible by the attendee device based on caller identification information of the attendee device is present in contact information stored on the user device, wherein the contact information is accessible by the call answering server;
- providing an option to the attendee device to join the user device in the conference call;
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- connecting the attendee device to the conference call.
Non-transitory computer-readable media comprising program code that when executed by a programmable processor causes execution of a method for establishing a conference call, the computer-readable media comprising:
- computer program code for receiving an unanswered call directed to a contact number of a user device, the contact number being a number used to directly communicate with the user device, wherein the unanswered call originated from an attendee device to the user device and has been forwarded from the user device to a call answering server based on instructions stored on the user device for forwarding unanswered calls;
- computer program code for determining that a conference call with the user device is accessible by the attendee device based on caller identification information of the attendee device is present in contact information stored on the user device, wherein the contact information is accessible by the call answering server;
- computer program code for providing an option to the attendee device to join the user device in the conference call;
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- computer program code for connecting the attendee device to the conference call.
A method performed by a user device for establishing a conference call, the method comprising:
- communicating to a call answering server instructions stored on a user device for forwarding unanswered calls directed to a contact number of the user device, the contact number being a number used to directly communicate with the user device;
- forwarding the unanswered calls from the user device to a call answering server based on the instructions, the unanswered calls originate from attendee devices calling to the user device;
- providing the call answering server with access to contact information stored on the user device, wherein the contact information is used by the call answering server to determine that a conference call with the user device is accessible by the attendee devices based on caller identification information of the attendee devices is present in the contact information;
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- connecting the attendee device to the conference call with the user device via the call answering server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.