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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2000
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles J. Bedard, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for joining a meet-me conference call includes establishing a Call Optimization Application (COA) channel between a Multipoint Controller-Call Optimization Application (MC-COA) and a Call Optimization Application co-resident with the terminal (Terminal-COA) following an address resolution, in response to an application program co-resident with a terminal receiving a request to join an ongoing meet-me conference call; receiving, over the COA channel, a first message from the MC-COA as to whether the meet-me conference call is still ongoing; and in response to the first message indicating that the meet-me conference call is no longer ongoing, giving notification that the meet-me conference call is no longer ongoing.