Patent ID: 8325896

Claim:
A system, comprising: a mixing engine, which in operation, establishes a conference call among a first group of participants, wherein each of the first group of participants is able to both listen to and to speak to the rest of the participants in the first group during the conference call; a broadcast engine, which in operation, connects to the mixing engine as one of the first group of participants; broadcasts the conference call to a second group of participants, wherein each of the second group of participants is only able to listen to, but not to speak, during the conference call; and a conference manager, which in operation, monitors activities of the conference call at the mixing engine and the broadcast engine; accepts and processes a request to dynamically adjust configuration of at least one of the first and the second group of participants; and, in response to the request, adjusts the first and the second group of participants associated with the mixing engine and the broadcast engine, respectively.