Patent ID: 9614968
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for managing access to a conference call, the method comprising, with a computer: obtaining, via a calendar application, a list of participants, the list of participants comprising a number of participants to be included in a conference call; identifying, from the list of participants, a first portion of the participants that have personal passcodes and designating a second portion of participants that do not have the personal passcodes as guests; generating guest passcodes for the second portion of the participants associated with the list of participants that do not have the personal passcodes; permitting, based on the personal passcodes or the guest passcodes, each of the participants to participate in the conference call; identifying, from the list of participants, the second portion of participants that do not have the personal passcodes as guests; determining if each of the guests is a frequent guest or an infrequent guest; retrieving a corresponding electronic mail (email) addresses for each of the frequent guests; storing, in a library, the guest passcode for each of the frequent guests with the corresponding email address as a personal passcode; and sending the guest passcode to each of the guests.