Method and apparatus for conditionally terminating a personal computer conference

摘要

The conference manager of a conferencing application is enhanced to provide conditional termination service. In response to the receipt of a conference termination request, the conference manager provides cooperative applications as well as other connection dependent conferencing systems joined to the conference in progress opportunities to object to the conference termination request. If objections were received, the conference manager further provides a user of the conferencing system an opportunity to provide his/her inputs on whether the objections are to be overridden or sustained.