Patent ID: 8060563

Claim:
A method for communicating comprising: receiving a request by a first collaboration agent, comprising a processor, associated with a first user from a second collaboration agent associated with a second user to establish a communications session between a first conference bridge associated with the first collaboration agent and a second conference bridge associated with the second collaboration agent; receiving, by the first collaboration agent, information identifying the second user; obtaining, by the first collaboration agent, contextual information associated with the first user at the time of the request, wherein the contextual information comprises calendar information identifying that the first user has no meeting at the time of the request; establishing, by the first collaboration agent, a first communications session between the first conference bridge and the second conference bridge based on the contextual information; and determining a rule associated with the second user, and wherein establishing the first communications session between the first conference bridge and the second conference bridge based on the contextual information comprises establishing the first communications session between the first conference bridge and the second conference bridge based on the contextual information and the rule.