Patent ID: 9609493
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A smartphone conferencing system for handling a conference call between a smartphone and a plurality of conference call participants over a communications network, the smartphone conferencing system comprising: a smartphone server for receiving a conference call establishment request from a smartphone containing contact details relating to a plurality of conference call participants and establishing a communication link through the communication network between the smartphone and each of the conference call participants; an audio server for splicing the audio feed from each of the smartphone and the conference call participants into a conference call feed and delivering that conference call feed to each of the smartphone and the conference call participants; a database server for storage of data relating to the smartphone users account and data relating to one or more of the smartphone, the call participants, a plurality of call tariffs, and the conference call feed thereon; and a dial-out and permissions rating engine (DPRE) in communication with both the database server and the smartphone server, the DPRE comprising: