Patent ID: 7703104

Claim:
A method of enrolling at least one given conferee to receive conferencing services, the method comprising at least the following: receiving on a computer through a voice response unit at least one request from the given conferee via a telecommunications device to enroll in the conferencing services; accessing data stores of a conferencing server system populated with at least one access information data unique and necessary to admit the given conferee to enroll in the conferencing services; automatically obtaining at least one unique identifier distinctive to the given conferee and intrinsic to incoming communication as at least one input to the data stores of the conferencing server system, the at least one unique identifier cross-referenced with a plurality of unique identifiers distinctive to and associated with the given conferee stored in the data stores of the conferencing server system; and automatically extracting at least one identifier determined by an output of the data stores of the conferencing server system based on the received input, and if the at least one identifier from the data stores of the conferencing server system matches the at least one access information from the data stores of the conferencing server system, the conferencing server system is configured to automatically connect the given conferee, without further manual or verbal input from the given conferee, directly to the given conferencing service; configuring at least one component determined by the output to support the given conferee to connect to the given conferencing service; wherein receiving data representing the at least one unique identifier includes obtaining data representing at least one biometric parameter associated with the given conferee; wherein the configuring at least one component includes configuring the at least one component to connect the given conference call host directly to the given conference call by bypassing entry of at least one conference pass code by the given conference call host.