Patent ID: 8856665

Claim:
A method of managing a multimedia conference comprising: establishing and storing, in a memory, before commencement of the multimedia conference, a plurality of profiles corresponding to a plurality of individual users, each profile including user preference information of an individual user of the plurality of individual users, wherein at least one of the plurality of profiles is on an endpoint of one of the plurality of individual users, wherein the at least one of the plurality of profiles on the endpoint of the one of the plurality of individual users contains preference information for an application on the endpoint of the one of the plurality of individual users, and wherein the application is not on another endpoint of another one of the plurality of individual users; accessing the previously stored plurality of profiles, including the user preference information of the plurality of individual users; applying the user preference information from the plurality of profiles of the plurality of individual users to one or more of functionality of the multimedia conference and operation of an endpoint, the user preference information from the plurality of profiles of the plurality of individual users being limited based on a master profile associated with the multimedia conference; displaying, by one or more processors, the user preference information from the plurality of profiles of the plurality of individual users that were stored before the commencement of the multimedia conference for display to a moderator, wherein the moderator overrides at least one preference included in at least one of the user preference information of the plurality of individual users; monitoring, by the one or more processors, the multimedia conference, endpoint capabilities and bandwidth, and dynamically updating the one or more of the functionality of the multimedia conference and the operation of the endpoint throughout the multimedia conference, wherein the stored plurality of profiles can be used for one or more additional multimedia conferences; determining that the application is not running on the other endpoint of the other one of the plurality of individual users; and in response to determining that the application is not running on the other endpoint of the other one of the plurality of individual users, spawning and running the application at a conference bridge.