Patent ID: 8775511

Claim:
A multimedia collaboration system for facilitating a multimedia collaboration session between a plurality of participants, comprising a plurality of client devices associated with each of the plurality of participants, each of the plurality of client devices configured to store endpoint address information associated with an associated participant, the multimedia collaboration system configured to: automatically obtain the endpoint address information from each of the plurality of client devices; associate a plurality of endpoint addresses associated with a participant of the plurality of participants with a network and with a media type, wherein the endpoint address is any end point that can communicate including a website, a session initiation protocol telephone, a telephone, a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant, and any other type of media component that can communicate; select an appropriate endpoint address of the plurality of endpoint addresses assigned to the participant from the participant's client device in response to a request to join the multimedia collaboration session, the network and the media type, the plurality endpoint addresses being assigned priorities; and automatically attempt to connect to at least one client device and an associated endpoint at the selected end point address based on a priority assigned to the end point, wherein the endpoint address information is automatically obtained at same time that the multimedia collaboration system automatically attempts to connect to the at least one client device and the associated endpoint.