Patent US20040010548 - Apparatus and method for enhancing voicemail functionality with conferencing ...

US 20040010548A1

(12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2004/0010548 A1

(19) United States

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(52) U.S. Cl. .......................................... .. 709/204; 709/245

(57) ABSTRACT

The present invention comprises a conference call program having a host program, an invitee program, and a monitor program which cooperate with each other and interact with the conference call participants’ voicemail system. The host is responsible for arranging the particulars of the conference call and the invitees are the people the host will invite to attend the conference call. The host program then sends the invitation out to the invitees over the telephone and obtains the conference call telephone number and passcode. The invitees can RSVP to the invitation and the invitee program forwards the invitees’ RSVPs back to the host in the form of a telephone message. The monitor program tracks the fiow of invitations, invitees, and RSVPs. The monitor program then notifies the host prior to the conference call who will and will not be attending.

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