US 2007/0185957 A1 · USING A LIST MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR CONFERENCING IN AN IMS ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The present invention uses a list management server for specifying conference participants in an IMS environment. More specifically, a conference list can be established for a standard list management server. The conference list can be a group list that is identified with a unique public URI. The group list can include multiple members, where each member can be identified by a member URI. Members can be specific participants associated with a user specific URI and/or can be a group of participants. When the conference is initiated, a new communication session can be instantiated and a conferencing application execute. After session instantiation, participants included in the conference list can join the session.

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A method for conferencing in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environment comprising:

establishing a conference group with a list management server, wherein the conference group includes a plurality of attributes, said attributes including a session identifier;
a plurality of conference participants subscribing to the session identifier;
a conference application initiating a conferencing session, which has an associated conferencing session identifier;
the conference application changing a value of the session identifier to the conferencing session identifier;
and
responsive to the changing step, the list management server automatically conveying a notification of the change that includes the conferencing session identifier to the subscribed conference participants, wherein said conference participants are able to join in the conferencing session by responding to a received notification.

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A system for real-time communications comprising:

a list management server configured to create and manage network-based group definitions and associated lists of members of those groups, wherein said list management server is configured to manage communication groups comprising a plurality of communication participants each associated with real-time communication device having a unique Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which is used by the list management server to identify the associated communications participant;
and
at least one composite services application configured to initialize a real-time communication session having participants specified by the list management server, wherein the real-time communication system uses open standards to extend composite services to allow multi-user access.

A method of conferencing communication participants comprising:

creating within a list management server a conference session identifier, wherein the conference session identifier is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) unique within the list management server;
associating a plurality of participant identifiers with the conference session identifier, wherein each of the participant identifiers is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) unique within the list management server;
and
executing a conference application associated with the conference session identifier, wherein the conference application initiates a conference that includes a participant for each of the participant identifiers.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Using a list management server for conferencing in an ims environment

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