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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2003
David S. Benco, Winfield, IL (US);
Daisy Diaz, Miami, FL (US);
Ronald Bruce Martin, Carol Stream, IL (US);
David S. Benco, Winfield, IL (US);
Daisy Diaz, Miami, FL (US);
Ronald Bruce Martin, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Participants on a conference call are managed by terminating incoming calls at a conference bridge and storing a record for each call entering the conference call, each record including identification of the caller and a corresponding port number of the conference bridge assigned to the call. A list of all callers currently connected to the conference call is maintained. Upon receiving a request from an administrative host of the conference call, the list of current conference call participants is communicated to the host. Upon receipt of a disconnect request from the host identifying a first record associated with a first conference call participant to be disconnected, the first record a corresponding first port number is located, and the call associated with the first port number is disconnected.