Patent ID: 7792263

Claim:
A method for displaying images of conference call participants implementing in a conference call system, comprising: receiving a call from a user to join a conference call, wherein a plurality of users are participating in the conference call; verifying, using a computer system, an identity of the user who is joining the conference call using a voice key, the verifying comprising: querying the user to speak the voice key in response to receiving the call from the user to join the conference call; comparing the spoken voice key against a plurality of stored voice keys to find a matching voice key, wherein each of the plurality of stored voice keys is associated with a different user; and if a matching voice key is found, identifying the user as the user associated with the matching voice key; obtaining a phone number of each of the plurality of users participating in the conference call using a caller identification system; matching at least one stored graphical representation to the phone number of each of the plurality of users wherein, in the case that the phone number of a user corresponds to a group of users, the matching further comprises matching a stored graphical representation of each user in the group of users with the phone number; distributing and displaying all matching graphical representations to all of the plurality of users that are participating in the conference call; monitoring the plurality of users participating in the conference call; updating the distributed graphical representations for all of the plurality of users that are participating in the conference call when a user enters or exits the conference call; tracking at least one of: an identity of each of the plurality of users participating in the conference call, a location from which each of the plurality of users participating in the conference call is calling from, and a time of participation of each of the plurality of users participating in the conference call; logging results of the tracking; and notifying a moderator of the conference call that an unidentified user is attempting to join the conference call if the matching step is unable to match the phone number to a stored graphical representation.