Optimizing on-premise conferencing solutions
View Patent ↗A method, a system, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for optimizing on-premise conferencing are provided. The method comprises receiving at least one call from at least one caller, identifying at least one call from at least one caller, and connecting the at least one call to a conference call bridge via a single connection.
1. A method, comprising:
connecting at least one on-premise call to a conference call bridge;
detecting at least one late on-premise call from at least one caller;
storing the at least one late on-premise call in an on-premise switch;
determining if the at least one conference call has reached a capacity of the conference call bridge;
forcing the at least one late call into a separate connection if the at least one conference call has reached the capacity of the conference call bridge; and
connecting the at least one late call to the conference call bridge via the separate connection.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one caller comprises at least one caller on the premise and at least one caller off the premise.
3. The method of claim 1 comprising receiving at least one call from at least one caller which comprises receiving at least one call from at least one of a telephone, a mobile device, a data processing system, and an Internet protocol enabled phone.
4. The method of claim 1 comprising identifying at least one on-premise call from at least one caller on the premise which comprises at least one of:
retrieving information of the at least one caller from a database;
identifying an identifier of at least one caller from the information;
determining if the at least one caller is on the premise based on the identifier; and
indicating at least one on-premise call from at least one caller on the premise if the at least one caller is on the premise based on the identifier.
5. The method of claim 1 comprising collecting the at least one on-premise call which comprises at least one of:
storing the at least one on-premise call in an on-premise switch;
identifying capacity of the conference call bridge;
determining if the at least one on-premise call has reached the capacity of the conference call bridge.
6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising forcing the at least one on-premise call to the single connection if the at least one on-premise conference call has reached the capacity of the conference call bridge.
7. The method of claim 5 , further comprising connecting the at least one on-premise call to the conference call bridge individually if the at least one on-premise call has not reached the capacity of the conference call bridge.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising notifying the at least one caller if a conference call is scheduled to begin.
9. The method of claim 8 , wherein notifying the at least one caller if the conference call is scheduled to begin comprises at least one of:
determining a scheduled time of a conference call;
detecting that the scheduled time is approaching;
sending a notification of the conference call to the at least one caller on the premise.
10. The method of claim 8 , wherein notifying the at least one caller if the conference call is scheduled to begin comprises at least one of:
retrieving information of the at least one caller from a database; and
sending a notification of the conference call to at least one caller off the premise based on the information.
11. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for connecting, via a separate connection, a late call to a conference call bridge that has reached capacity.