Patent ID: 8204195

Claim:
A method for providing simultaneous management of multiple conference calls, comprising the steps of: selecting, by an endpoint device, a conference call identifier on a user interface located at an endpoint of a system, the conference call identifier identifying a selected conference call; selecting, by the endpoint device, on the user interface participants to be associated with the selected conference call; confirming, by the endpoint device, on the user interface the selection of each participant to be associated with the selected conference call; and establishing, by the endpoint device, the conference call among the confirmed participants, said establishing step comprising notifying each participant of each of the multiple conference calls about a new topology; waiting for receipt of requests to initiate conference calls during an idle state; establishing a set of conference hosts upon receipt of a request to initiate the conference calls; checking to determine whether host requests are sent to all conference hosts; waiting for responses from a conference host if host requests are sent to all the conference hosts; checking to determine whether all conference hosts have responded to the host requests; establishing a set of all conference call participants; checking to determine whether all participants in the set of conference call participants have been notified about the new topology; and continuing to await, as necessary, additional receipt of the requests to initiate conference calls.