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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
May. 09, 2006
Albert J Baker, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Eileen P Rose, Manasquan, NJ (US);
Albert J Baker, Eatontown, NJ (US);
Eileen P Rose, Manasquan, NJ (US);
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus to arrange for and to set up a conference call are disclosed. The party who arranges for a conference call provides all of the details of the conference call to a conferencing server through an encoded public address. The arranging party's telecommunications endpoint then transmits the encoded, initial public address to the server. The encoded public address is encoded with (i) the public address for each participant, which can be a group address or an individual address, and (ii) one or more commands that can be used to control the conference call, and is encoded in such a way so that it is still routable to the conferencing server. Because the encoded public address comprises all of the participants, either the conferencing server or an external proxy server can recursively retrieve all of the constituent public and contact addresses to set up the call.