Patent ID: 11902383
Assignee: NEOATOMIC LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving a connection request for communicating media content from a source media device operating in a Unicast network;
relaying the connection request to a target media device through a first server;
receiving a first response to the connection request from the target media device through a second server, wherein the first server and the second server are associated with a same Internet Protocol (IP) address in an Anycast network;
the second server generating a triggering event in response to receiving the first response;
the second server generating a request to a network routing control in the Unicast network to respond to the triggering event; and
the network routing control reconfiguring a network route for the media content such that the second server acts as a relay for the media content.