Patent ID: 8914734

Claim:
A meeting system comprising: an internet protocol (IP) connections circuit configured and arranged to communicate data including voice over internet protocol (VoIP) data with remote users over an internet protocol network; a computer server arrangement including at least one computer processor connected to the IP connections circuit, the computer server arrangement configured to: provide a web-based meeting-group subscription option to potential meeting participants via the IP connections circuit; provide a web-accessible virtual meeting interface via the IP connections circuit; receive meeting scheduling data from the virtual meeting interface via the IP connections circuit, the meeting scheduling data including group identification information and meeting time information, the meeting time information specifying a time in the future; retrieve, in response to the group identification information, participant identification information for participants that subscribe to a meeting group identified by the group identification information; establish, in response to the meeting time information, to a current time and to the participant identification information, audio connections for participants of the meeting via the IP connections circuit, as identified by the participant identification information; merge audio from the established audio connections; provide the merged audio to the participants over the established audio connections; and after providing the merged audio to the participants, establishing a common shared web-accessible interface and providing the participants with access to shared content via the common shared web-accessible interface.