A conference system is provided that includes a processor configured to provision a plurality of bridge telephone numbers having a plurality of different country codes, and receive a dial-out request for one of a plurality of attendees of a conference meeting for connecting to the conference meeting. The dial-out request includes a target telephone number associated with a communication device of the one of the plurality of attendees. The processor is further configured to select one of the provisioned plurality of bridge telephone numbers based on a result of a match between at least a country code of the selected bridge telephone number and the target telephone number, and cause dial-out to the target telephone number from the selected bridge telephone number.

One example method of operation may include receiving a conference request from a moderator device, retrieving user profiles, included in the conference request, stored in a database, transmitting a conference access code to the user devices associated with the user profiles, retrieving and applying a moderator conference call agenda to a conference call at a conference call maturity time, and enacting one or more restrictions during the conference call based on the moderator conference call agenda.

A system and method for creating teleconferences that leverage social networking websites and messaging thereof. The system includes a teleconferencing website hosted on a server for scheduling a teleconference in response to user input, and for generating a message for display on a social networking website. The message includes information about the teleconference and a link to one or more invitees to the teleconference. The system further includes an interactive voice response system for hosting the teleconference to connect at least some of the one or more invitees to the teleconference. The system further includes a client application running on a mobile device associated with each of the at least some of the one or more invitees. The client application receives a notification of the teleconference from the social networking website, and includes a control interface to enable an associated invitee to join the teleconference.

A network call method, a server, a call terminal, a network call system, and a storage medium are provided. The network call method includes: receiving a reservation request transmitted by a call reservation terminal, the reservation request including a first communication identifier of a first call terminal; generating a chat room identifier of a chat room in a social network application; generating a call reservation notification, the call reservation notification including an access link generated according to the chat room identifier; and transmitting the call reservation notification to a communication client of the first call terminal according to the first communication identifier of the first call terminal.

Initiating a conference call includes receiving a conference call request message from an initiating user specifying a plurality of other users and determining an availability of the other users to receive conference call invitations. A conference call is initiated between the initiating user and one or more of the other users that are determined to be available. The availability of one or more of the other users determined to be unavailable is monitored and interaction with a conference call invitation by one or more of the other users determined to be unavailable is enabled upon their monitored availability changing from unavailable to available. The interaction with the conference call invitation by the other users is conditioned on whether the conference call is still in progress.

Systems for and methods of delivering telephone calls using the combination of a data channel and a voice channel are disclosed. A data channel connection with the telephone handset may provide pre-call information used to set up incoming and outgoing calls which are ultimately connected using a voice channel. Use of the pre-call information may permit the same handset to be associated with multiple secondary telephone numbers from which calls appear to have been made and to which calls appear to have been placed.

Disclosed are a video conference implementation method and server, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: a video conference server receiving from a terminal a virtual conference number of a conference to be convened; detecting whether the virtual conference number and a corresponding conference state are contained in a stored virtual conference draft; if the virtual conference number is contained and the state is not convened, sending to a multipoint control unit conference parameters corresponding to the virtual conference number, and receiving a conference state returned by the multipoint control unit.

A computer-implemented method is provided that includes receiving a telephone call placed by a device associated with a user. The user is identified based on a caller identifier obtained from the telephone call. A user identifier is determined for the user based on the caller identifier. Using the user identifier, access is made to a calendar associated with the user to determine from the calendar for the user whether there are any online meetings scheduled for the user at or near a current time. When there is at least one online meeting in the calendar for the user at or near the current time, the user is joined to the at least one online meeting, which results in connecting the telephone call to an audio portion of the at least one online meeting served by a meeting service.

Initiating a conference call includes receiving a conference call request message from an initiating user specifying a plurality of other users and determining an availability of the other users to receive conference call invitations. A conference call is initiated between the initiating user and one or more of the other users that are determined to be available. The availability of one or more of the other users determined to be unavailable is monitored and interaction with a conference call invitation by one or more of the other users determined to be unavailable is enabled upon their monitored availability changing from unavailable to available. The interaction with the conference call invitation by the other users is conditioned on whether the conference call is still in progress.

Described herein are processing operations enabling an exemplary virtual assistant to understand context for a meeting invite and execute new functionality such as automatically calling a user to connect to a meeting when the meeting begins. A virtual assistant is programmed with skills for meeting management that adapts operation of the virtual assistant to enable users to utilize the virtual assistant with meeting scheduling and meeting execution. Exemplary skills for meeting management provide a layer of intelligence over raw application data where a virtual assistant extracts electronic meeting details from an electronic meeting invite and utilizes the extracted meeting details to execute tasks for user assistance. Exemplary tasks comprise but are not limited to: automatically calling a user computing device when a meeting starts; meeting attendee detection (including status of meeting attendees; service-based messaging capabilities; and extension of virtual assistant functionality during a live conferencing session, among other examples.