Patent ID: 9118981
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: H04M,H04Q

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a communications system including a call management server and a communications client at a conference call leader, said communications client providing a user interface, for the establishment of a conference call having a conference call leader call leg and one or more conference call participant call legs, comprising the steps of: determining that a conference call participant call leg has become active for said conference call; said call management server notifying said communications client at said conference call leader that a conference call participant call leg has become active; presenting in response to said notification and without said conference call leader joining the call a message to said conference call leader through said user interface confirming that the conference call has moved from an inactive state, in which there are no participants to the conference call, to an active state, in which there is at least one participant to the conference call; and presenting to said conference call leader a mechanism providing the conference call leader both the option to monitor the conference call before the conference call leader joins the call and the option to join the call; wherein the method is capable of supporting at least one of said call legs over PSTN.