Patent ID: 7127487

Claim:
A method of sidebar conferencing, the method comprising: establishing a call conference between a first user, the first user having an audio stream, and a second user, the second user having an audio stream, the call conference having an audio stream; creating a temporary call conference by transmitting a SIP INVITE message to a call conference server requesting a temporary call conference, wherein the SIP INVITE message indicates that the audio from the call conference should be a talk only participant in the temporary call conference; directing the audio stream of the call conference to the temporary call conference by transmitting a first SIP RE-INVITE message to the call conference server indicating that the server should receive audio from the call conference; and directing the audio stream of the first user to the temporary call conference and directing the audio stream of the second user to the temporary call conference by transmitting second and third SIP RE-INVITE messages to the first and second user, respectively, wherein the audio stream of the first user and the audio stream of the second user are only audible to the first user and the second user.