Patent ID: 7743101

Claim:
A method for sending a conference invite, the method comprising: receiving an ad-hoc request to invite a user into an existing conference, the existing conference being established and including one or more participants participating in the existing conference; putting, by a private branch exchange (PBX), the existing conference on hold in response to receiving the ad-hoc request; determining, by the PBX, a list of the one or more participants that are participating in the existing conference on hold, wherein the list is determined by considering whether each of the one or more participants in the existing conference desires their identification information to be included in the list for release; generating, by the PBX, an invite message for the existing conference, the invite message including information for the list of the one or more participants; sending the invite message to the user, wherein the information for the list of the one or more participants is accessible to the user; wherein sending the invite message comprises determining a modality in a plurality of modalities associated with the user; and sending the invite message in the determined modality; and wherein determining the modality comprises determining a modality where the user is listed as having an active presence.