Patent ID: 8872883

Claim:
A method to establish videoconferencing sessions in a videoconferencing system from a network device, comprising: displaying a human machine interface (HMI) on said network device, wherein the HMI displays contact information for one or more videoconference users, wherein said contact information is not otherwise associated with said network device; receiving user input to the HMI, wherein the user input specifies one or more videoconferencing users to establish one or more videoconferencing sessions in the videoconferencing system; receiving further user input to the HMI during the videoconference, wherein the further user input consists of one or more commands thereby enabling one or more functions to modify the operation of said videoconference sessions in the videoconferencing system; wherein the one or more commands comprise a command for storing data in a central web portal; wherein the one or more commands further comprise a command for retrieving data from said central web portal.