West Corporation

Intrado Corporation

William F Krasso

Marcus H Hurst

Alan Naumann

Kannan Panathula

Doug Utley

Srinivas X Maganti

To enable clients to self-manage service issues for conferences on a bridge operated by a conference provider, there is provided a web based interface. Companies are provisioned in a client database as receiving client managed conference services instead of provider managed conference services. Users of the company or client of the Provider may log in to a web interface through a company or client specific URL and be presented with an interface that enables the user to view and perform management functions for conferences on a bridge that relate to that user only.

Conference management

An example home bridge may perform receiving an out dial call from a user, parsing a call number to determine a country code, querying a bridge location database to determine a closest designated bridge to a country associated with the country code, providing to the designated bridge out dial data for the call, and lending the out dial call at the designated bridge.

Global bridge out dial

Providing disparate conference system connection, comprising: assigning by a first party conference system a first party passcode, assigning by the first party conference system a third party identifier to a third party conference system, authenticating by the first party conference system utilizing the third party identifier and the first party passcode the third party conference system and converging by the first party conference system a conference communication linkage of the first party conference system with the authenticated third party conference system.

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Valley, NE, United States of America

William F Krasso