Method to populate contact list from recent call log

A videoconferencing system comprising:

• a programmable processing unit;
• a network communication device communicatively coupled to one or more other videoconferencing devices wherein the input log records are retrieved via the network communication device;
• and
• a user input device coupled to the programmable processing unit wherein the programmable processing unit is configured to perform the acts of:
• identifying, based on one or more user-defined selection criteria, log records of interest retrieved from a source, wherein the source comprises a composite of system call logs retrieved from a plurality of videoconferencing systems called from the videoconferencing system more times than a user defined threshold;
• processing the log records of interest for presentation to an end user;
• determining, for each log record of interest, if the log record represents a duplicate of another log record;
• condensing the duplicates into a single entry, thereby creating a processed data set;
• presenting the processed data set;
• receiving a user selection of a component item in the processed dataset;
• and
• performing a user defined action pertaining to the component item identified by user selection.

A system dialing method, comprising:

• identifying log records of interest retrieved from one or more sources, the identification being based on one or more user-defined selection criteria, wherein the one or more sources comprise a composite of system call logs retrieved from a plurality of videoconferencing systems called from a videoconferencing system more times than a user defined threshold;
• processing the log records of interest for presentation to an end user;
• determining for each log record retrieved from the one or more sources if the log record represents a duplicate entry of an already processed log record and creating a processed data set containing less than or equal to the number of log records originally retrieved from the one or more sources;
• presenting the processed data set;
• selecting a presented item and performing a user defined action pertaining to the item identified by user selection.