Systems, methods, devices and arrangements for unified messaging

Abstract

In one example, a communications platform provides data communications services over a communication network and involving different communications systems respectively associated with respectively different formats to a plurality of communication user-operable devices each of which has a user interface for communicating information. The data communications services are used with a browser and facilitate: establishing an electronic meeting between multiple individuals, the electronic meeting providing access to a plurality of different types of content, or of different format types; and generating, in response to the electronic meeting being established, a status message that is associated with the electronic meeting, that provides an update message to at least a subset of the plurality of communications systems, and that provides information regarding possible availability of an individual for participating in the electronic meeting.