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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2017
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Anup D Karnalkar, Allen, TX (US);
R. Tyler Wallis, Greenwood Village, CO (US);
William Stanley Robbins, Sun Prairie, WI (US);
Susan Steele, Phillipsburg, GA (US);
Mark Ryan, Norcross, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to retrieve from an address book a communication identifier for each of a plurality of participants, determine from the address book a conferencing type for each of the plurality of participants, and initiate according to the conference type and the communication identifier of each participant a Voice over Internet Protocol conference call directed to communication devices of the plurality of participants. Other embodiments are disclosed.