Patent ID: 7707262
Filing Date: 2010-04-27
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of administering access to an electronic conference with a plurality of users over a network, the network including at least one host device and a plurality of client devices, the method comprising: receiving at the host device, an electronic instruction configured to establish the electronic conference; enabling more than one user of the plurality of users to generate content restrictions that limit content rendered during the electronic conference, receiving at the host device, proposed content restrictions provided by each of the more than one user; comparing, by the host device, the proposed content restrictions received from each user of the more than one user to the content restrictions received from each other user of the more than one user; identifying one or more disputed parameters in the proposed content restrictions based on the comparing, prompting each client device associated with the more than one user to resolve the disputed parameters by: locking down agreed-to parameters appearing in the proposed content restrictions so that the more than one user cannot change a status of the agreed-to parameters; enabling the more than one user to engage in continued negotiations to resolve remaining disputed parameters of the one or more disputed parameter while precluding the more than one user from modifying the agreed to parameters that have been locked down; analyzing one or more participant devices to ensure compliance with the content restrictions; establishing the electronic conference in accordance with the content restrictions; and enabling user access to the electronic conference consistent with the content restrictions.