Concurrent collaboration conference port management

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10666810
APP PUB NO 20170366675A1
SERIAL NO

15339203

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Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for a collaboration conferencing system to track a total number of concurrently utilized ports across any number of conferencing bridges of the network for a particular customer and one or more billing actions may occur based on this tracking. This may result in an alternate billing option for the customer's use of the system. Further, a telecommunications network administrator may provide access to the collaboration conferencing system based on a total number of concurrently utilized ports rather than on a per conference or per minute basis. With the information of the number of purchased ports by the customer, the administrator may more accurately predict an available capacity for the collaboration conferencing system needed to support all of the users of the system and the potential collaboration conferences.

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LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC931 14TH ST DENVER CO 80202

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Broadworth, Andrew J Thornton, US 28 72
Ellison, Gregory T Erie, US 11 42
Nance, Robert F Gilbert, US 6 12

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