Patent ID: 8908843

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a request, from a first participant, to dial into a first conference call at a first location; receiving, during the first conference call, a command from the first participant of the first conference call to be beamed from the first conference call to a second conference call, wherein the first conference call is facilitated by a conferencing service at the first location; receiving information that identifies a location of the second conference call, wherein the second conference call is facilitated by the conferencing service at a second location, wherein the second conference call requires the first participant to provide at least one of a different participation code and host code from the first conference call, and wherein the first location and the second location use a same access number, wherein the first location corresponds to a first address of a first conference mixer and wherein the second location corresponds to a second address of a second conference mixer and wherein the information that identifies the location of the second conference call is received automatically from a calendar of the first participant; and beaming the first participant to the second conference call without requiring the first participant to hang up and without requiring redialing the same access number, wherein beaming the first participant to the second conference call without requiring the first participant to hang UP and without requiring redialing the same access number further comprises: determining that the first participant entered a participant code for the second conference call instead of a host code for the second conference call; determining that the first participant is actually scheduled to be a host for the second conference call; and joining the first participant to the second conference call as a host of the second conference call rather than as a participant of the second conference call.