Patent ID: 8626847
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for transferring a conference session with a conferencing system from a first client device to a second client device, the method comprising: a conferencing system establishing an online conference between a plurality of participants; the conferencing system presenting a conference interface via a graphical user interface to client devices associated with the participants, each participant accessing the conference interface via a corresponding participant session with the conferencing system, the conference interface displaying a participant object uniquely identifying each of the participants; one of the participants initiating a transfer request to transfer the corresponding participant session from a first client device to a second client device; in response to the transfer request, sending a message to the second client device via a communication network, the message comprising a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with the conferencing system; receiving an acknowledgement of the transfer request from the second client device; and in response to the acknowledgement of the transfer request, the conferencing system transferring the corresponding participant session from the first client device to the second client device while persistently displaying the associated participant's participant object in the conference interface to the other participants.