US 8,275,109 B2Granted

Administering participant attendance of teleconferences

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsJan E. Acosta, Carrie J. Bracht, James L. Jones, Karen A. Rosengren, Elizabeth V. Woodward

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Abstract

Administering participant attendance of teleconferences, including monitoring present call status of a user's telephone. In dependence upon one or more calendar events representing previously scheduled teleconferences, a teleconference administration device determines whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference. If the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference, the teleconference administration device notifies prospective participants of the conflict.

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A computer-implemented method of administering participant attendance of teleconferences, the method comprising:

monitoring, by a teleconference administration device comprising one or more modules of automated computing machinery, present call status of a user's telephone, wherein said monitoring comprises detecting an establishment of a call;
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, wherein said determining whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with the previously scheduled teleconference comprises,
identifying a calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference that potentially conflicts with the established call, the calendar event specifying a phone number for the previously scheduled teleconference;
determining whether a phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference;
if the phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determining that the present call status of the user's telephone does not conflict with the previously scheduled teleconference;
and
if the phone number of the established call does not match the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determining that the present call status of the user's telephone does conflict with the previously scheduled teleconference;
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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.

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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 executable by the apparatus to:
monitor, by a teleconference administration device comprising one or more modules of automated computing machinery, present call status of a user's telephone, wherein to monitor comprises to detect an establishment of a call;
determine, 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, wherein to determine whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with the previously scheduled teleconference comprises to,
identify a calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference that potentially conflicts with the established call, the calendar event specifying a phone number for the previously scheduled teleconference;
determine whether a phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference;
if the phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determine that the present call status of the user's telephone does not conflict with the previously scheduled teleconference;
and
if the phone number of the established call does not match the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determine that the present call status of the user's telephone does conflict with the previously scheduled teleconference;
and
if the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference, notify, by the teleconference administration device, prospective participants of the conflict.

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A computer program product for administering participant attendance of teleconferences, the computer program product disposed in a non-transitory tangible computer readable recording medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions to:

monitor, by a teleconference administration device comprising one or more modules of automated computing machinery, present call status of a user's telephone, wherein to the computer program instructions to monitor comprises computer program instruction to detect an establishment of a call;
determine, 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, wherein the computer program instructions to determine whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with the previously scheduled teleconference comprises computer program instructions to, identify a calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference that potentially conflicts with the established call, the calendar event specifying a phone number for the previously scheduled teleconference;
determine whether a phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference;
if the phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determine that the present call status of the user's telephone does not conflict with the previously scheduled teleconference;
and
if the phone number of the established call does not match the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determine that the present call status of the user's telephone does conflict with the previously scheduled teleconference;
and
if the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference, notify, by the teleconference administration device, prospective participants of the conflict.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Abstract

A computer-implemented method of administering participant attendance of teleconferences, the method comprising:

monitoring, by a teleconference administration device comprising one or more modules of automated computing machinery, present call status of a user's telephone, wherein said monitoring comprises detecting an establishment of a call;
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, wherein said determining whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with the previously scheduled teleconference comprises,
identifying a calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference that potentially conflicts with the established call, the calendar event specifying a phone number for the previously scheduled teleconference;
determining whether a phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference;
if the phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determining that the present call status of the user's telephone does not conflict with the previously scheduled teleconference;
and
if the phone number of the established call does not match the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determining that the present call status of the user's telephone does conflict with the 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.

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