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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2008
Applicant:
Colin I'anson, Ottery St Mary Devon, GB;
Inventor:
Colin I'Anson, Ottery St Mary Devon, GB;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A conferencing system, method and communication device for facilitating a conference call between a plurality of terminal devices is presented. The conference system comprises: a conference server for establishing the conference call; and re-connection means adapted to detect if a terminal device is disconnected from the conference call and to re-connect a terminal device to the conference call if it is detected that the terminal device is disconnected from the conference call.