Patent ID: 7730411

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising a controller configured to: provide meeting content via a display screen, the meeting content having at least one of a plurality of modalities for conveying the meeting content to a user; provide for the display of a meeting selection screen on the display screen, a list of available past meetings displayed with their associated forms of access for each of the available past meetings, wherein the displayed forms of access for each of the available past meetings comprise an original form of access context and at least one context that is different from the original form of access context used in a corresponding available past meeting, the at least one different context being at least one of: a voice conversation, text/instant messenger conversations, and sidebar conversations; receive selection of a past meeting and a form of access from the displayed list of available past meetings and forms of access via a user interface coupled to the display screen, wherein the selected form of access specifies a context of the selected past meeting in which a user wishes to participate in a new meeting; and re-create in the new meeting, the selected past meeting in the specified context using the selected form of access to allow a plurality of participants in the new meeting to resume the selected past meeting to begin the new meeting, wherein the plurality of participants includes the user.