Appeal No. 1999-2304
Application 08/667,242
the user to one or more private address books as well as to
one or more remote independent public directory services
having names and electronic conferencing connection addresses
to a plurality of persons who the user might wish to
participate in the conference.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An apparatus comprising:
an execution unit for executing programming
instructions;
a storage medium coupled to the execution unit having
stored therein a plurality of programming instructions to be
executed by the execution unit, wherein while being executed,
the programming instructions facilitates scheduling of a
multi-point electronic conference with a multi-point
electronic conferencing control service for a user, including
facilitating selective access by the user to one or more
private address books and one or more remote independent
public directory services having names and electronic
conferencing connection addresses of a plurality of persons
for selection by the user of one or more of said persons to be
scheduled participants of the multi-point electronic
conference being scheduled.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Weiner 4,862,390 Aug. 29, 1989
Saiki 5,642,156 June 24, 1997
(effectively filed Mar. 01,
1994)
Ludwig et al. (Ludwig) 5,689,641 Nov. 18, 1997
(filed Oct. 01,
1993)
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