Patent ID: 8245043

Claim:
A method for transmitting device identifications over a telephone network to schedule an ad hoc meeting between a first distributed meeting device and a second distributed meeting device, comprising: generating a first unique device identification for the first distributed meeting device and a second unique device identification for the second distributed meeting device; encoding the first unique device identification into a first inaudible watermark and the second unique device identification into a second inaudible watermark; and transmitting the first inaudible watermark continuously over the telephone network to the second distributed meeting device as long as the first distributed meeting device is connected to the telephone network and transmitting the second inaudible watermark over the telephone network to the first distributed meeting device; obtaining a network address where the first and the second distributed meeting devices can rendezvous for the ad hoc meeting; generating an audio start service table that contains a list of distributed meeting devices involved in the ad hoc meeting as described by their unique device identification, a list of buddies for each of the distributed meeting devices as described by their unique device identification, and the network address sent by the first distributed device.