Patent ID: 8755507

Claim:
A method for providing multilevel teleconference call participants comprising: receiving requests from plurality of people to join a teleconference call; identifying a first defined level of the plurality of people based on one or more unshared passcodes, wherein each of the one or more unshared passcodes is received from one person of the plurality of people, wherein the one person is required to be in attendance at the teleconference call; identifying a second defined level based on one or more shared passcodes received from at least one person of the plurality of people, wherein the at least one person is not required to be in attendance at the teleconference call, wherein the at least one person comprises a person invited to the teleconference call and a person not invited to the teleconference call; providing a notification regarding a status of persons having certain defined levels that one of have joined the teleconference call and have not joined the teleconference call; and increasing the frequency at which the notification is provided after the teleconference call is active.