Siemens Enterprise Communications, Inc.

Unify, Inc.

Michael Sharland

Jacqueline Levy

Jay Maskell

Andrew Mason

A presence trigger system and a service system support automatic actions on a voice conference based on the presence state of potential conferees of the voice conference. The systems may, for example, initiate contacting and joining the potential conferee to the voice conference when the potential conferee presence state indicates that the potential conferee is available. As another example, the systems may automatically notify participating conferees that the potential conferee has become available. Automatic notification allows participating conferees to concentrate on and contribute to the voice conference without the distraction of frequently checking the presence status of expected, but absent, conferees.

Automatic voice conference actions driven by potential conferee presence

A telecommunications method includes setting a media server greeting automatically responsive to detection of a change in setting of an e-mail system default message. The e-mail system default message may be an 'out of office' outgoing message. The media server greeting may be a voice greeting.

Method and apparatus for automatically setting 'out of office' greetings

A telecommunications device including a notification set-up unit associated with a user device; an access control unit configured to receive notification configuration information from said notification set-up unit and provide notification to said user device of a pending conference in accordance with said notification configuration information.

Method and apparatus for automatic notification of conference status

In some embodiments, an automatic conference initiator system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory having, (i) an automatic conference initiator program that initiates a conference when conferees are determined available based upon presence information, and (b) a processor coupled to the memory that executes the automatic conference initiator program.

Apparatus and method for automatic conference initiation

A telecommunications device includes a telephony controller; a contacts controller, said contacts controller configured to maintain a plurality of contact telephone numbers for individual contacts; and an automatic advance calling controller operably coupled to said contacts controller and said telephony controller, the automatic advance calling controller configured to cause the telephony controller to automatically call ones of the plurality of contact telephone numbers for the particular contact in a predetermined order until the call is successfully completed to one of the plurality of telephone numbers or the list of telephone numbers is exhausted.

Method and apparatus for automatic advance calling to contacts

A telecommunications system includes a network; a telephony client operably coupled to the network and configured to maintain a list of contact telephone numbers; a telephony server operably coupled to the network and including an automatic advance sequence service including means for sequentially calling a contact on said list at one or more numbers associated with the contact and if the call is completed at one of the one or more numbers, continuing to call the remaining ones of the one or more numbers in sequence.

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Michael Sharland