Telephone terminal controlled conference inspection

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A telephone terminal storing conferee identification information received from other telephone terminals on a conference call and responding to actuation of an inspect button to display the identification information of eachconferee. As each new telephone terminal is added to the conference call the new, telephone terminal transmits its conferee identification information to the telephone terminals already on the conference call and those telephone terminals automatically display the identification information of the new conferee. Also the coordinator of, the conference call is so designated when the coordinator's identification information is displayed on one of the telephone terminals.