Patent ID: 9621731
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer system comprising: one or more computer processors; one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media; program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to determine a set of participants for a conference call, from a set of potential participants, wherein the program instruction to determine the set of participants comprise: program instructions to receive a first indication for a breakout session, wherein the breakout session splits the conference call into separate sub-conference calls, wherein the first indication is based on a predetermined time interval; responsive to receiving the first indication for the breakout session, program instructions to select a subset of participants, from the set of participants, for each of the separate sub-conference calls, wherein selecting the subset of participants for each separate sub-conference call, comprises: program instructions to receive a second indication for a for a second breakout session wherein the second breakout session splits the conference call into at least two new subsets of the conference calls; responsive to receiving the second indication, program instructions to determine at least two new subsets of participants associated with the at least two new subs subsets of the conference call, wherein each of the at least two new subsets of participants are based in part on a third set of common attributes; program instructions to receive an indication to merge the separate sub-conference calls into a single conference call; and responsive to receiving the indication to merge the separate sub-conference calls into a single conference call, program instructions to combine the separate sub-conference calls into a single conference call.