Patent ID: 8369506

Claim:
A method for informing a teleconference participant that a person-of-interest has become active within the teleconference, the method comprising the steps of: a computer detecting a first user connecting to a teleconference; responsive to detecting the first user connecting to the teleconference, the computer accessing a database to determine whether the first user is identified as a person-of-interest by a second user; the computer monitoring teleconference activity from the first user to determine whether the teleconference activity includes an occurrence of at least one alert condition, wherein the at least one alert condition is associated with teleconference activity from the first user in the database, and wherein the at least one alert condition is also associated with the second user in the database; responsive to identifying an occurrence of the at least one alert condition within the teleconference activity, the computer sending a notification of the occurrence of the at least one alert condition to a teleconference machine of the second user; responsive to receiving an identification of the person-of interest from the second user, the computer storing the identification of the person-of-interest in the database, and associating the second user with the person-of-interest in the database; responsive to receiving the at least one alert condition from the second user, the computer associating the at least one alert condition with both the second user and the person-of-interest in the database; and responsive to receiving a notification method from the second user, the computer associating the notification method with the at least one alert condition, the second user and the person-of-interest in the database, wherein the notification method identifies a format that the notification of the occurrence of the at least one alert condition should take.