Routing of conference participant based on caller recognition

A system for initiating a collaboration conference in a telecommunications network, the system comprising:

• a network interface unit configured to receive a first communication from a user of a communications network to establish a collaboration conference on the network, the first communication received from a communication device associated with the communications network;
• an application server in communication with the network interface unit;
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• a computer-readable medium connected to the application server configured to store information and instructions that, when executed by the application server, performs the operations of:
• obtaining an identifier of the first communication device associated with the communications network, the identifier comprising a telephone number of the communication device from which the request is received;
• associating the identifier with an account of the user, the account configured to associate the identifier and one or more collaboration conference preferences with the user;
• establishing a specific collaboration conference event based at least on the account and the one or more collaboration conference preferences associated with the account;
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• connecting the communication device to the specific collaboration conference event based at least on the account and the one or more collaboration conference preferences associated with the account.

A method for initiating a collaboration conference in a telecommunications network comprising:

• receiving a request message for access to a collaboration conference from a requester's communication device;
• obtaining an identifier of the requester's communication device, the identifier comprising a telephone number of the requester's communication device from which the request is received and obtained through an Automatic Number Identification (ANI) feature of the communications network;
• associating the identifier with an account of the requester, the account configured to include one or more identifiers of the requester and one or more collaboration conference preferences and to associate the identifier with the requester;
• initiating a specific collaboration conference event based at least on the account and the one or more collaboration conference preferences associated with the account;
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• connecting the requester's communication device to the specific collaboration conference event based at least on the account and the one or more collaboration conference preferences associated with the account.