Subscription/notification of a conference in a collaboration conferencing system

A system for establishing a collaboration conference, the system comprising:

• a network interface unit adapted to receive a communication from a user device of a communications network to establish a collaboration conference on the communications network;
• at least one processor in communication with the network interface unit;
• and
• instructions stored on a computer-readable medium that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to:
• receive a subscription request from the user device of the communications network, the subscription request comprising at least an identification of a user associated with the user device, wherein the user is a host of the collaboration conference;
• associate the subscription request with an audio portion of the collaboration conference hosted by the communications network;
• store the subscription request in a database;
• connect the user device to a web portion of the collaboration conference, wherein the web portion of the collaboration conference includes sharing documents between the user and a participant via the telecommunications network;
• receive, during the web portion of the collaboration conference, an initial request to access the audio portion of the collaboration conference from the participant, wherein receipt of the initial request occurs prior to an initial audio connection between the user device connected to the web portion and the telecommunication network;
• reserve a port on a conference bridge for the audio portion of the collaboration conference responsive to receiving the initial request;
• compare the request to access the audio portion of the collaboration conference to the stored subscription request in the database;
• and
• connect the user to the audio portion of the collaboration conference.

A nontransitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method for establishing a collaboration conference on a telecommunications network, the method comprising:

• receiving a subscription request from a user of the telecommunications network, the subscription request comprising at least an identification of the user, wherein the user is a host of the collaboration conference;
• associating the subscription request with an audio portion of the collaboration conference hosted by the telecommunications network;
• storing the subscription request in a database;
• connecting the user to a web portion of the collaboration conference, wherein the web portion of the collaboration conference includes sharing documents between the user and a participant via the telecommunications network;
• receiving, during the web portion of the collaboration conference, an initial request to access the audio portion of the collaboration conference from the participant, wherein receiving the initial request occurs prior to an initial audio connection between the user connected to the web portion and the telecommunication network;
• reserving a port on a conference bridge for the audio portion of the collaboration conference responsive to receiving the initial request;
• and
• connecting the user to the audio portion of the collaboration conference.