Managing unified communications conferences via categories

摘要

A conference management system is described for administering large numbers of conferences in an organization. The conference management system receives a hierarchical set of categories from a system administrator and configuration settings for each category. When a user requests to create a new conference, the conference management system creates the conference and assigns the new conference to a category. The conference takes on the settings of the category to which it belongs, which eliminates individual configuration of each conference. Administrators can also delegate authority to manage conferences to others in the organization.

主权项

1. A method performed on a computing device, the method comprising:
receiving, by the computing device, a request to create a conference; creating the requested conference; and assigning the created conference to a category at a level of a hierarchy of categories, where the hierarchy is configured for at least one conference to be assigned to levels of the hierarchy, where the assigned conference inherits conference attributes from the hierarchy based on the level of the assigned category, where the created conference is configured for overriding at least one of the inherited conference attributes, and where at least one of the inherited conference attributes enables a participant in the created conference to manage an aspect of the created conference.