Managing Participants In Video Conferences

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising processor-executable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to:

• generate, by a video conferencing server, a request for a response status for each of a plurality of invitations to a video conference, each of the plurality of invitations associated with a video conference attendee;
• transmit the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device;
• receive, by the video conferencing server, the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference;
• initiate, by the video conference server, the video conference;
• generate, by the video conference server, a list of each video conference attendee and the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference;
• and
• transmit, by the video conferencing server, the list of each video conference attendee and the response status to the video conferencing application on the client device.

A device comprising:

• a communications interface;
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
• and
• one or more processors configured to execute processor-executable instructions stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium to:
• generate, by a video conferencing server, a request for a response status for each of a plurality of invitations to a video conference, each of the plurality of invitations associated with a video conference attendee;
• transmit the request to a video conferencing application executed by a client device;
• receive, by the video conferencing server, the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference;
• initiate, by the video conference server, the video conference;
• generate, by the video conference server, a list of each video conference attendee and the response status for each of the plurality of invitations to the video conference;
• and
• transmit, by the video conferencing server, the list of each video conference attendee and the response status to the video conferencing application on the client device.