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