Administering Participant Attendance Of Teleconferences

An apparatus for administering participant attendance of teleconferences, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of:

• monitoring, by a teleconference administration device comprising one or more modules of automated computing machinery, present call status of a user's telephone;
• determining, by the teleconference administration device in dependence upon one or more calendar events representing previously scheduled teleconferences, whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference;
• and
• if the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference, notifying, by the teleconference administration device, prospective participants of the conflict.

A computer program product for administering participant attendance of teleconferences, the computer program product disposed in a computer readable recording medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions capable of:

• monitoring, by a teleconference administration device comprising one or more modules of automated computing machinery, present call status of a user's telephone;
• determining, by the teleconference administration device in dependence upon one or more calendar events representing previously scheduled teleconferences, whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference;
• and
• if the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference, notifying, by the teleconference administration device, prospective participants of the conflict.