Patent ID: 8526588

Claim:
A teleconferencing system for managing and initiating at least one teleconference call, the system comprising: a conference call managing application; a receiver for receiving, from a participant, at least one participant-defined condition associated with at least one conference call, wherein the at least one participant-defined condition identifies a set of participants required to be connected to the conference call prior to connecting the participant to the conference call; wherein the conference call managing application determines that a starting time has occurred; determines, in response to the starting time having occurred, that the set of participants are connected to the conference call; and determines, in response to the set of participants being connected to the conference call, that the participant-defined condition has been satisfied in response to determining that the starting time has occurred; and a transmitter for sending out at least one alert to at least one required participant of the conference call, in response to the participant-defined condition being satisfied, to join the conference call.