Patent ID: 8005895

Claim:
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for facilitating conferencing in a distributed communication system, the method comprising: receiving a request to join a conference, the request including a numeric conference identifier associated with the conference, wherein the numeric conference identifier is generated at conference scheduling time employing a logical inverse of the predefined algorithm by: combining a numeric identifier assigned to a conference resource and a random number, appending a ceiling function of a logarithm of the numeric identifier and the random number to generate a string of digits, reversing the digits in the string of digits, wherein a first and a last digit in the string of digits remain in their place if the last digit is zero, replacing the digits with a combination of themselves and a digit to their left, wherein the first digit remains unchanged, and formatting the combination to derive the numeric conference identifier unique to the conference; determining the conference resource associated with the requested conference based on decoding the numeric conference identifier, wherein the conference resource is part of a distributed architecture of conference resources; contacting the determined conference resource employing an enhanced network communication protocol; and facilitating the conference upon receiving an affirmative response from the contacted conference resource.