Patent ID: 8503650

Claim:
A method for providing a conference call, comprising: creating, by a subscriber user on a user terminal, a conference call event in a calendar application; automatically configuring a conference call based on the conference call event; identifying, without user intervention, participant users associated with the conference call event; notifying the subscriber user that the conference call has been configured; contacting the participant users at the time and date of the conference call event; providing the participant users with one or more options for declining the conference call, the one or more options including an option for declining participant users to specify a period of time to delay the conference call, wherein the declining participant users are contacted again for the conference call after the specified period of time expires; receiving responses from the participant users accepting or declining the conference call; establishing the conference call among the accepting participant users and the subscriber user based on the received responses; receiving, from the declining participant users, selections of one or more of the options for declining the conference call; recording audio information associated with the subscriber user and the participant users' participation during the conference call; converting at least some of the audio information to text information; and recording the text information in a transcript reflecting a textual temporal based representation of communications that have taken place between the users during the conference call.