Patent ID: 7675538

Claim:
A method for providing control and monitoring of conference devices connected to a Conference Management System (CMS) having predefined CMS alerts and control codes, comprising: receiving a CMS alert at least attaching a user terminal address and a conference device identification from the Conference Management System in a Parser connected thereto; creating a Session in said Parser; storing said user terminal address and conference device identification in the Session; making a look up in a first mapping table for said CMS alert; if a match between said CMS alert and a record in said first mapping table is found, then fetching a user terminal alert associated with said CMS alert from said first mapping table, transmitting said user terminal alert including said conference device identification to a user terminal identified by said user terminal address, and if a user terminal originated command originating from a user terminal identified by said user terminal address is received before a predefined time interval started at the time said Session was created is elapsed, then requesting the session for said stored conference device identification, and making a look up in a second mapping table for said user terminal originated command, if a match between said user terminal originated command and a record in said second mapping table is found, then fetching a CMS scheduling or control code, or a data address pointing at a CMS scheduling or control code, associated with said user terminal originated command from said second mapping table, and executing said scheduling or control code on a conference device identified by said device identification in the Conference Management System; and closing said Session in said Parser.