Patent ID: 8411595

Claim:
A system for providing reservationless conferencing, comprising: a conference control entity for controlling a conference among a plurality of participants at a plurality of multimedia terminals; and a web server communicatively coupled to the conference control entity through a first connection and communicatively coupled to a customer administrator terminal through a second connection, the customer administrator terminal including a communication program and being communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of terminals; the web server being operative to: receive a request from the customer administrator terminal for defining a reservationless conference associated with a conference profile; respond to the request for defining the reservationless conference by allocating a dial in number for calling the conference control entity wherein the dial in number indicates the conference profile to the conference control entity; and distribute the dial in number, wherein the conference control entity is operative to: receive a call from a multimedia terminal calling the dial-in number; initiate the conference based on the profile that is indicated by the dial in number; and initiate an auto termination process that is capable of auto terminating the conference session when only one conferee is connected to the session, based on a first timing parameter of the indicated profile, and when no conferees are connected to the session, based on a second timing parameter of the indicated profile.