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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
May. 17, 2000
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles J. Bedard, Saratoga, CA (US);
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles J. Bedard, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for adding a participant to a conference call. A feature of the method and system is that with respect to individual invitees to ad-hoc conference calls, the conference call can essentially be 'turned around' and treated 'as if' the individual invitees were dialing in to a “meet me” conference call, if it is determined that such is the more optimum calling method. A multipoint controller unit, in conjunction with a Call Optimization Application (COA), utilizes information contained in one or more tokens to make possible the change in call direction. The optimal call direction is established via a COA channel.