Patent ID: 7920853
Filing Date: 2011-04-05
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A conference call method performed by a system that includes at least one mobile station, at least one call centre server, at least one computer and at least one gateway server, the method comprising: initiating, from a mobile station associated with a conference initiator, a conference call by transmitting a conference call request wirelessly to a call centre server, the conference call request identifying at least two desired conference participants, and their contact information unless the call centre already has access to the contact information, calling, by the call centre server via a gateway server, the conference initiator and the desired conference participants, establishing a call between the gateway server and each of the conference initiator and the desired conference participants, digitizing, at the gateway server, each of the established calls with the conference initiator and the desired conference participants into a corresponding audio stream, recognizing, by the call centre server, the conference initiator based on the conference call request, based on recognizing the conference initiator, initializing, by the call centre server, a computer of the conference initiator, relaying, to the initialized computer of the conference initiator, each of the audio streams digitized at the gateway server, and connecting, at the initialized computer of the conference initiator, the relayed audio streams to establish the conference call between the conference initiator and the desired conference participants.