Patent ID: 8234337

Claim:
A method for online web conferencing implemented in an information handling system comprising: (a) allowing a plurality of users to join an online meeting via a plurality of computers wherein the plurality of computers are communicatively connected in a network; (b) allowing one of the users to override a default assumption or default estimate used to determine one or more savings by way of an input dialog box; (c) determining the one or more savings based in part on hypothetical travel distances of each user to a meeting location wherein the one or more savings is selected from the group consisting of: an air emission savings, a cost savings, and a productivity savings wherein the determining is accomplished via a microprocessor; (d) displaying the one or more savings to at least one of the users on a display panel; determining an IP address of each user; determining an estimated physical location of each user that corresponds to the IP address of each user; and determining the hypothetical travel distance as the distance between the estimated physical location and the meeting location; wherein the one or more savings comprises an air emission savings; and wherein the air emission savings corresponds to foregoing a transportation of the hypothetical travel distance of each user, wherein the air emission savings is calculated as an automobile emissions calculation when a participant physical location is less than a threshold distance from a session leader physical location and calculated as an aircraft emissions calculation when the participant physical location is greater than the threshold distance.