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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2013
Applicant:

Vonage Network Llc, Holmdel, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Vishal Patel, New Brunswick, NJ (US);

Nirav J. Kadakia, Parlin, NJ (US);

Jason Farkas, Belle Meade, NJ (US);

Stephen Van Saders, Manalapan, NJ (US);

Tzahi Efrati, Hoboken, NJ (US);

Assignee:

Vonage Network LLC, Holmdel, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/42 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); H04L 12/185 (2013.01); H04L 12/1822 (2013.01); H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 65/4038 (2013.01); H04M 3/563 (2013.01); H04M 3/569 (2013.01); H04L 12/1827 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for making a VoIP-based and other types of group calls includes a user interface adapted for use by a group call administrator via the Internet, a database manager connected to the user interface, and a database connected to the database manager. In one embodiment of the invention, the group call administrator identifier and one or more group call invitee identifiers is a telephone number. A method includes using call information from the database to initiate conference call connections and an administrator call connection to facilitate a conference call in which the administrators call connections and the participants connections are joined to allow communications between the participants and the administrator.


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