Patent ID: 9462132
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, from a client device, a request to establish a mobile conference room, the request originating from a conferencing application on the client device; establishing the mobile conference room based on the request by assigning a phone number to the mobile conference room; sending, to the client device, a message indicating that the mobile conference room has been established based on the request; receiving, from the client device, data regarding one or more contacts to be added to the mobile conference room; adding the one or more contacts to the mobile conference room based on the received data; receiving, from the client device, an unscheduled request to initiate a conference call with a subset of contacts in the mobile conference room, the subset of contacts selected from the contacts in the mobile conference room by the user of the client device through a user interface of the client device; in response to receiving the unscheduled request to initiate the conference call, concurrently calling each of the subset of contacts in the mobile conference room; determining which of the subset of contacts have answered the call; and bridging the client device and all contacts that have answered the call on the conference call.