Conferencing and meeting implementations with advanced features
Assignee8x8, Inc.
InventorRamprakash Narayanaswamy
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Abstract
Meeting and conferencing systems and methods are implemented in a variety of manners. Consistent with one embodiment of the present disclosure, an audio conference system includes communications circuitry and a caller interface, each associated with setting up or managing the audio conference. Menu options may be provided to validate or authenticate incoming telephony calls. In response to a selection of the menu options, an incoming telephony call may be prompted to select a callback number, and then the system monitors for a trigger event. A participant is contacted in response to detecting the trigger event, and the contacted participant is then placed into the audio conference.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a communications interface, including a caller interface, to communicate data in response to non-audio data communications and to communicate in, by way of at least one of establishing telephony calls and receiving telephony calls;
- a server to communicate over at least one wideband data network and to place participants in a particular audio conference, to:
- validate at least one incoming one of the telephony calls for access to a particular audio conference;
- provide menu options via the caller interface, wherein at least one of the menu options is associated with the particular audio conference and is associated with a trigger event associated with said at least one incoming one of the telephony calls;
- in response to a selection of said at least one of the menu options, prompt an incoming telephony call to select a contact number and monitor for occurrence of the trigger event associated with said at least one incoming one of the telephony calls;
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- in response to detecting the trigger event, contact a participant from among the participants using the selected contact number and place the contacted participant into the particular audio conference.
A method for use in a system having a communications interface, including a caller interface, to communicate data in response to non-audio data communications and to communicate in, by way of at least one of establishing telephony calls and receiving telephony calls, and having a server to communicate over at least one wideband data network and to place participants in a particular audio conference, the method comprising:
- validating at least one incoming one of the telephony calls for access to a particular audio conference;
- providing menu options via the caller interface, wherein at least one of the menu options is associated with the particular audio conference and is associated with a trigger event associated with said at least one incoming one of the telephony calls;
- in response to a selection of said at least one of the menu options, prompting an incoming telephony call to select a contact number and monitor for occurrence of the trigger event associated with said at least one incoming one of the telephony calls;
- and
- in response to detecting the trigger event, contacting a participant from among the participants using the selected contact number and placing the contacted participant into the particular audio conference.
A storage device including executable instructions which, upon being executed by computer circuitry, cause the following steps to be performed:
- validating at least one incoming telephony call, to a system including a communications interface, including a caller interface, to communicate data in response to non-audio data communications and to communicate in, by way of at least one of establishing telephony calls and receiving telephony calls, and further including a server to communicate over at least one wideband data network, for access to a particular audio conference;
- providing menu options via the caller interface, wherein at least one of the menu options is associated with the particular audio conference and is associated with a trigger event associated with one of the telephony calls;
- in response to a selection of said at least one of the menu options, prompt an incoming telephony call to select a contact number and monitor for occurrence of the trigger event associated with said at least one incoming one of the telephony calls;
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- in response to detecting the trigger event, contacting a participant from among the participants using the selected contact number and placing the contacted participant into the particular audio conference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.