Patent ID: 8577974

Claim:
A method of facilitating participants of meetings to manage subsequent meetings, said method being performed in a conference server, said method comprising: maintaining, in said conference server, information indicating a set of present participants of a meeting in progress, wherein each of said set of present participants has joined said meeting in progress but has not yet logged out of said meeting; identifying, in said conference server, a participant of said meeting in progress as one of said set of present participants, wherein said identifying is performed by examining said information indicating said set of present participants; and upon said identifying, requesting from said participant a scheduling option for a subsequent meeting, wherein said subsequent meeting is a meeting that follows said meeting in progress, wherein said participant is already scheduled, prior to said identifying, to attend said subsequent meeting, said set of present participants containing at least one participant who has joined said meeting but has not yet logged out such that said meeting is in progress when said identifying is performed, wherein said scheduling option is requested from said participant by said conference server in a duration when said meeting is in progress.