Patent ID: 9503690
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a video session manager, requests from at least two communication endpoints to start a video communication session in which multiple communication endpoints are to participate; evaluating, by the video session manager, a plurality of bridging resources during initialization of the session, in order to select a bridging resource in the plurality for use in the video communication session, based on i) geographic locations of the bridging resources with respect to geographic locations of at least one of the communication endpoints from which the requests have been received thus far during the initialization and ii) a point-of-presence subnetwork providing access to services for one or more enterprise networks that comprise the greatest number of communication endpoints from which the requests have been received; and connecting, by the video session manager, the at least two communication endpoints via a selected bridging resource in the plurality.