Patent ID: 8275109

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of administering participant attendance of teleconferences, the method comprising: monitoring, by a teleconference administration device comprising one or more modules of automated computing machinery, present call status of a user's telephone, wherein said monitoring comprises detecting an establishment of a call; determining, by the teleconference administration device in dependence upon one or more calendar events representing previously scheduled teleconferences, whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference, wherein said determining whether the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with the previously scheduled teleconference comprises, identifying a calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference that potentially conflicts with the established call, the calendar event specifying a phone number for the previously scheduled teleconference; determining whether a phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference; if the phone number of the established call matches the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determining that the present call status of the user's telephone does not conflict with the previously scheduled teleconference; and if the phone number of the established call does not match the phone number specified by the calendar event representing the previously scheduled teleconference, determining that the present call status of the user's telephone does conflict with the previously scheduled teleconference; and if the present call status of the user's telephone conflicts with a previously scheduled teleconference, notifying, by the teleconference administration device, prospective participants of the conflict.