Patent ID: 9495663
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: hosting, with at least one processor of a host device, a meeting at a predetermined physical meeting location between participants in a computer network; scanning with a transceiver of the host device for communications devices in proximity of the physical meeting location; receiving, with the at least one processor from the transceiver of the host device, an identification message from a particular communications device associated with a possible participant of the meeting; in response to receiving the identification message from the transceiver, determining, with the at least one processor, whether the particular communications device is proximate to the predetermined physical meeting location for the meeting; and sending, with the at least one processor, an invite for the transceiver to send to the particular communications device, the invite being a request for the possible participant to join the meeting, the sending being in response to determining that the particular communications device is proximate the host device at the predetermined physical meeting location, wherein sending the invite comprises sending a token referring to a session identification of the meeting and encrypted for the possible participant.