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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2007
Applicant:
Peter Donald Runcie, Bilgola Plateau, AU;
Inventor:
Peter Donald Runcie, Bilgola Plateau, AU;
Assignee:
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus manage conference calls by receiving for each of participants a participant access code to identify a subconference call to which each of participants is assigned; forming a conference call of all participants; initiating subconference calls by a host of the conference call; transferring each of the participants into a subconference call identified by the participant access code of each of the participants; re-initiating the conference call by the host; and re-forming all of the participants back into the conference call.