Patent ID: 7889851

Claim:
A method for integrating a calendar server and a conference control server comprising: identifying a plurality of conferencing resources, each of the conferencing resources having an associated resource identifier, each of the plurality of conferencing resources associated with at least one conferencing device; for each of the conferencing resources, registering with a calendar server using the associated resource identifier to request notifications of updates to a calendar associated with the resource identifier, the notifications of updates indicative of at least one change to one or more scheduled events associated with the plurality of conferencing resources; receiving a first update notification from the calendar server, the first update notification indicating a first one of the resource identifiers; receiving a second update notification from the calendar server, the second update notification indicating a second one of the resource identifiers; in response to the first and second update notifications from the calendar server, retrieving at least one change to the one or more scheduled events associated with the plurality of conferencing resources; determining meeting information for a scheduled call indicated by the first update notification and the second update notification, the meeting information comprising a scheduled time and identifying a first one of the conferencing resources associated with the first resource identifier and a second one of the conferencing resources associated with the second resource identifier, the meeting information further comprising a contact identifier for the second conferencing resource; and providing at least a portion of the meeting information to the first conferencing resource, the portion comprising the scheduled time and the contact identifier; and transmitting at least a portion of the meeting information corresponding to the scheduled call to a call server to facilitate initiation of the scheduled call.