Patent ID: 8139511

Claim:
A method for populating an electronic conference form comprising: establishing a conference between a plurality of conference participants, the plurality of conference participants being associated with a plurality of end devices and being associated with a plurality of workstations; an activating participant of the plurality of conference participants activating a Computer Telephony Integration (“CTI”) application, the CTI application being stored on a server that is connected to the plurality of end devices and the plurality of workstations; the CTI application capturing a plurality of directory numbers of the plurality of associated end devices during the established conference; the CTI application converting the plurality of captured directory numbers so that each of the converted directory numbers is in the same format; the CTI application retrieving communication information for each of the plurality of conference participants by interrogating a database using the converted directory numbers, the communication information comprising at least one of an email address of each of the plurality of conference participants and a name of each of the plurality of conference participants; the CTI application transferring the communication information of the plurality of conference participants to a first Personal Information Management (“PIM”) application stored on a first workstation of the activating conference participant; the CTI application generating a recording of the established conference; the first PIM application automatically populating an electronic conference form with at least one of the email addresses of each of the plurality of conference participants and the names of each of the plurality of conference participants via the retrieved communication information; terminating the established conference; and sending the electronic conference form and the generated recording to a plurality of PIM applications stored on the plurality of workstations of the plurality of conference participants.