Patent ID: 7930355

Claim:
A method of coordinating a communications session involving a plurality of users, the method comprising: receiving a first message from a sender comprising data indicative of a group of users and indicating a desire to initiate a communications session, said group of users comprising a plurality of members; generating, using a processor, at least one second message based in part on the data indicative of the group of users in the first message, each second message having a message body comprising data providing access to a communications session and a destination address determined from data indicative of a given member of the group; identifying members of the group of users based in part on the data indicative of the group of users in the first message; transmitting the second message to at least one identified member of the group of users; and transmitting a message with the same message body as the second message to the sender of the first message, wherein the communications session is accessible by the at least one identified member of the group and by the sender of the first message via the transmitted messages and involves participants other than the group members.