Patent ID: 7492729

Claim:
A method for reserving conference resources, comprising: communicating a conference notification to each of a plurality of conference invitees, the conference notification associated with a multipoint conference; receiving, from each of a first number of the plurality of conference invitees, a response to the conference notification indicating that the invitee will participate on the multipoint conference, the first number of the plurality of invitees comprising participating invitees; automatically determining, based on the responses to the conference notifications, a sufficient amount of resources to allow the participating invitees to communicate on the multipoint conference; automatically reserving the determined sufficient amount of resources; hosting the multipoint conference between the participating invitees using the reserved resources; and wherein: the conference notifications comprise a plurality of attendance options; each response to the conference notifications received from the first number of the plurality of conference invitees comprises an attendance option selection; and automatically determining, based on the responses to the conference notifications, a sufficient amount of resources to allow the participating invitees to communicate on the multipoint conference comprises automatically determining a sufficient amount of resources based on the attendance option selections to allow the participating invitees to communicate on the multipoint conference.