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.

A communication system can include terminal devices that communicate with a social network or a computer server device for scheduling use of conference resources and/or for using conference appliances that may be located in a conference room being used for a video conference or teleconference. The communication system can be configured to permit a user to use such resources without having to have a user's device be physically and directly connected by wiring to a conference appliance or communication device. The communication system can also be configured to validate participants to help ensure that only authorized personnel are properly attending a scheduled conference based on audio and/or video input received for the different participants and can also be configured to allow screen sharing to be performed during a video conference or teleconference.

A mobile computing device includes a touchscreen configured to display a user interface for receiving user input, memory hardware configured to store computer-executable instructions and information regarding scheduled conference calls, and processor hardware configured to execute the computer-executable instructions. The computer-executable instructions include communicating with a server via one or more wired/and or wireless communication networks, and parsing the information stored on the mobile computing device according to a parsing protocol to obtain information regarding at least one scheduled conference call. The instructions further include, in response to receiving user input via the user interface, transmitting at least a portion of the obtained information regarding the at least one scheduled conference call to the server to control a system controller in communication with the server to initiate the at least one scheduled conference call via a videoconferencing codec.

A computerized VoIP system which provides a computerized service for facilitating face-to-face and/or telephone meetings, in real time, between persons lacking a common language or having language barriers such as accents and dialects e.g. by utilizing or generating a networked worldwide community of Simultaneous Interpreters, using e.g. POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), Smart Phone or any mobile phone. A platform may thereby be provided for professional simultaneous interpreters and business/private people, where interpreters from all over the world may translate any face-to-face meeting or telephone call between business people in any combination of languages, in real time.

Systems and methods for virtual meetings allow a recipient of a request to attend a meeting alternate options to: not attend the meeting but record all or part(s) of the meeting, or to attend the meeting and record all or part(s) of the meeting. In an embodiment, a conferencing system comprising a conferencing server is in communication with a participant device. The conferencing server sends the participant device a meeting request which includes recording options available to the recipient. The communication may include metadata that assists the conferencing system to identify the part(s) of the meeting the recipient wishes to be recorded.

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for meeting schedule conflict resolution are provided. A registration for a first virtual meeting that includes a first list of persons scheduled to virtually attend, a first meeting time, and a host is received. A registration for a second virtual meeting that includes a second list of persons scheduled to virtually attend, a second meeting time, and another host is received. A time overlap of the first meeting time and the second meeting time is identified. A meeting schedule conflict that includes a first person being in the first list and in the second list is identified. The meeting schedule conflict is resolved via generating and transmitting a coordinating message to at least one of the host and the other host.

Systems, methods, and modes are disclosed for sharing presentation content displayed on a meeting room display during a meeting. The system comprises one or more presentation gateways each associated with a network address and configured for receiving and transmitting presentation content to a meeting room display during a meeting. The system further comprises one or more RF beacons each associated with a presentation gateway and configured for broadcasting information. The system also comprises a portable electronic device that pairs with the presentation gateway to share presentation content by: receiving from at least one of the one or more RF beacons the broadcasted information, estimating a distance to the at least one of the one or more RF beacons according to a detected signal strength of the RF beacon broadcast, determining a location of the portable electronic device based on the distance to the at least one of the one or more RF beacons, identifying a presentation gateway network address based on the determined location, and pairing with a presentation gateway using the identified presentation gateway network address.

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for scheduling a call to be automatically initiated between users. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first device associated with a first user, a request for a call to be automatically initiated, at a scheduled time, between the first device and a second device corresponding to a second user; providing, to the second device and in response to the receiving, an invitation to participate in the call; receiving, from the second device and in response to the providing, an acceptance of the invitation; and providing for automatically initiating the call between the first device and the second device at the scheduled time.

A transmission management system includes a destination name data managing unit which manages a plurality of destination name data items which indicate a plurality of names of a destination in communications between transmission terminals, a destination name data reading unit which reads a destination name data item from the plurality of destination name data items managed by the destination name data managing unit, and a destination name data transmitting unit which transmits the destination name data item read by the destination name data reading unit to a transmission terminal capable of communicating with the destination.

Methods and systems are provided for automatically joining a user in a conference meeting via alternative communication devices when the user is detected to be unavailable at a particular client communication device. The client communication device of the user determines that the presence of the user is set to away, indicating that the user is unavailable at the client communication device. When the client communication device determines that a conference meeting including the user as an active participant is about to begin, the client communication device determines an alternative number, and different communication device, at which to reach the user. Using the alternative number, the client communication device calls the user at the different communication device and, when answered, automatically joins the user into the conference meeting through a communication channel provided by the client communication device.