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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2011
Applicant:
Marian Buzdugan, Ottawa, CA;
Inventor:
Marian Buzdugan, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for managing conference calls. The method includes establishing a first conference call between a host terminal device and one or more participant terminal devices; receiving a request for adding a non-participant terminal device into the first conference call; selecting a participant terminal device from the one or more participant terminal devices to host a second conference call; establishing the second conference call hosted by the selected participant terminal device; and chaining the first conference call and the second conference call through the selected participant terminal device.