Telephonic communications – Special services – Conferencing
Reexamination Certificate
2005-02-11
2010-10-05
Hong, Harry S (Department: 2614)
Telephonic communications
Special services
Conferencing
C348S014080, C370S260000, C370S261000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07809124
ABSTRACT:
A conferencing system provides the scheduling of virtual meetings with meeting lobbies so that a meeting presenter can conduct a virtual meeting without the need to send out invitations to attendees. A person that wants to conduct a virtual meeting can schedule with the conferencing system a meeting with a meeting lobby. The meeting lobby has an address, but there is no associated privileged information, such as a meeting password. Would-be meeting attendees use the meeting lobby address to enter the meeting lobby as visitors in the lobby, and request to enter the meeting from the meeting lobby. A meeting presenter can then either grant authorization for a visitor in the meeting lobby to enter the meeting, or deny authorization for a visitor in the meeting lobby to enter the meeting. If a visitor in the meeting lobby is denied authorization to enter the meeting from the meeting lobby, the conferencing system removes the visitor from the meeting lobby.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2004/0246332 (2004-12-01), Crouch
patent: 2005/0058088 (2005-03-01), Decker et al.
patent: 2005/0254440 (2005-11-01), Sorrell
Archambault Anne M.
Curtis Pavel
Meek Brian
Smith Jeremy B.
Wyatt Douglas K.
Hong Harry S
Microsoft Corporation
Perkins Coie LLP
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