Telephonic communications – Special services – Conferencing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-21
2006-11-21
Bui, Bing Q. (Department: 2642)
Telephonic communications
Special services
Conferencing
C379S093210, C370S260000, C709S204000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07139379
ABSTRACT:
Monitoring of any conventional telephone conference in which a requisite set of conference attendees respectively at a corresponding set of telephone stations are connected into a telephone conference. In association with the telephone conference, a communication network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display stations for displaying received network documents available from sources on the network in which there is an interactive display station associated with each of said set of telephone stations with a displayed document including an indicator representing each attendee having means for indicating whether the attendee's telephone station is connected into the conference, and means for indicating whether the attendee is speaking. During telephone conference initiation, there is placed on-call each telephone station initially connecting into the conference and there is an implementation for calling said on-call telephone stations into the conference when a quorum of said requisite attendees has connected into the conference.
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Kobrosly Walid M.
Malik Nadeem
Quiller Marques Benjamin
Saha Avijit
Bui Bing Q.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Kraft J. B.
McBurney Mark E.
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