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US 7,583,657 B1Granted
Methods and apparatus for conducting conference calls using a conferencing system adapted to operate between a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network
AssigneeWest Corporation
InventorsCraig A. Webster, Kevin L. Pauba, Myron P. Sojka, Michael T. Mateer, Melissa A. DeLong, Jonathan P. McIntosh
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Abstract
The present invention is generally related to conference calls and more specifically, to methods and apparatus for conducting conference calls using a conference system adapted to operated between a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network. In one embodiment, a method for conducting conference calls using a conferencing system is disclosed. In another embodiment, a conferencing system is disclosed.
Claims23
A conferencing system comprising at least the following:
- at least one voice response unit adapted to interact via a circuit-switched network with a plurality of callers, the voice response unit further adapted to support at least one conferencing application and at least one non-conferencing application;
- at least one mixer in communication with the voice response unit via a packet-switched network, the at least one mixer adapted to support at least one conference call between at least two callers communicating with one another via the mixer and the VRU;
- at least one data store adapted to store data representing at least one state parameter relating to at least one conference call supported by the mixer, the data store coupled to communicate with the VRU and the mixer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.