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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:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 16, 2013
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Grant Albert, Raritan, NJ (US);

David Lawcock, Guilford, CT (US);

Lori Essex, Hawley, PA (US);

Robert Stokey, Jr., Manville, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/56 (2006.01); H04M 3/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 3/56 (2013.01); H04M 3/382 (2013.01); H04M 2203/6081 (2013.01); H04M 2242/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system receives, at a conference platform, a communication from a communications device of a requester requesting to host an audio conference. The system determines whether an access code provided by the requester is a valid access code associated with a provider communications address specified by the requester. A processor identifies a country from which the communication of the requester originated and determines whether the country from which the communication of the requester originated is a pre-authorized country, associated with a host account, from which to host the global audio conference. An audio conference is established when the access code specified by the requester is determined to be a valid access code associated with the provider communications address specified by the requester and when the country from which the communication of the requester originated is determined to be a pre-authorized country from which to host the audio conference.


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