Patent ID: 7542756

Claim:
A method of operating a conference telephone call with a conference call system, the method comprising: prior to the establishing of the conference telephone call: registering a cellular telephone with the conference call system; presenting to a user of the cellular telephone via the cellular telephone an option by which the user of the cellular telephone is permitted to (i) indicate that the cellular telephone is to be automatically called back to re-connect to the conference telephone call if a signal channel to the cellular telephone is broken during the conference telephone call and (ii) indicate that the cellular telephone is to not be automatically called back to re-connect to the conference telephone call if the signal channel to the cellular telephone is broken during the conference telephone call, and wherein the presenting comprises transmitting an automatically generated voice prompt to the user of the cellular telephone via the cellular phone; establishing the conference telephone call, the conference telephone call having at least three participants, one of the participants participating in the conference telephone call being the user of the cellular telephone; during the conference telephone call, detecting that the signal channel to the cellular telephone is broken; and the conference call system automatically responding to the detecting that the signal channel to the cellular telephone is broken by initiating a re-connect telephone call to the cellular telephone to re-connect the cellular telephone to the conference telephone call if the user of the cellular telephone indicated that the cellular telephone is to be automatically called back and by not initiating a re-connect the cellular telephone to the conference telephone call if the user of the cellular telephone indicated that the cellular telephone is to not be automatically called back.