Patent ID: 8200756

Claim:
A method of establishing a multimedia conference meeting, comprising: dynamically generating, using a single system, a first unique user identifier and a second unique user identifier; correlating, using the single system, the first unique user identifier only to a first user, and the second unique user identifier only to a second user; associating the first unique user identifier with a first persistent virtual private meeting room dedicated to the first user, and the second unique user identifier with a second persistent virtual private meeting room dedicated to the second user; establishing a first conference session using the first persistent virtual private meeting room in response to an activation act by the first user, and a second conference session using the second persistent virtual private meeting room in response to an activation act by the second user; establishing communications via a first plurality of network connections among users that are logged in to the first conference session, after establishing the first conference session, establishing communications via a second plurality of network connections among users that are logged in to the second conference session, after establishing the second conference session, wherein resources for establishing the communications among the users that are logged in to the first conference session and second conference session are dynamically allocated, after respectively establishing the first conference session and second conference session, using a distributed conference bridge comprised of a plurality of servers and based on at least one optimization criteria that corresponds to quality of service provided respectively during the first conference session and second conference session, wherein at least one user is concurrently connected, via a first plurality of distinct devices, to the first conference session, and at least one user is concurrently connected, via a second plurality of distinct devices, to the second conference session, wherein resources presented during the first conference session in the first persistent virtual private meeting room remain available in the first persistent virtual private meeting room after the first conference session ends, and resources presented during the second conference session in the second persistent virtual private meeting room remain available in the second persistent virtual private meeting room after the second conference session ends, and wherein multiple conference sessions initiated by the first user are conducted in the same first persistent virtual private meeting room and not in any other virtual private meeting room, and multiple conference sessions initiated by the second user are conducted in the same second persistent virtual private meeting room and not in any other virtual private meeting room.