Patent ID: 7499535

Claim:
A method for connecting a meeting room telephone to a conference telephone call, comprising: parsing a user's calendar entry to determine a meeting room where a conference is scheduled, a meeting start time, and a conference call telephone number; querying a conference room reservation system to look up a telephone number for a telephone in the meeting room; waiting until detection is made that a meeting attendee has entered the meeting room; in response to the attendee, other than a meeting chairperson, entering the meeting room, connecting the telephone to the conference telephone call with a participant passcode, other than a meeting chairperson passcode; and, detecting that the meeting chairperson has entered the meeting room, and in response to the meeting chairperson entering the meeting room, automatically re-dialing the conference call telephone number and/or renegotiating the conference telephone call utilizing the meeting chairperson passcode; if the telephone is not connected to the conference telephone call when the meeting chairperson enters the room, automatically detecting that the meeting chairperson has entered the meeting room and, in response to the detecting that the meeting chairperson has entered, connecting the telephone to the conference telephone call utilizing the meeting chairperson passcode.