Patent ID: 8374166

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a first call request from a first calling party to a first called party; establishing a first dialog between a SIP based network element and the first called party; establishing a second dialog between the SIP based network element and the first calling party; establishing a third dialog between the SIP based network element and a second calling party in response to a second call request from the second calling party; establishing a fourth dialog between the SIP based network element and first called party as a result of establishing the third dialog; waiting for a response from the first called party in the fourth dialog; providing a default action to be executed after a predetermined period of time of user inactivity in response to the second call request; and receiving an indication of an action from the first called party to manage the disposition of the second call request, wherein the SIP based network element acts as a back to back user agent for one or more SIP devices to enable a call disposition in response to indication of the action received from the first called party including: conference call functionality between three or more users, placing a call on hold, dropping the first calling party, dropping the second calling party, answering a call, and forwarding the second call request to a specified destination.