Patent ID: 9276776
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a request to establish at least a portion of a media session between a session exchange device and a network entity based on at least a portion of a session description, the session exchange device and the network entity being associated with a media over Internet protocol (MoIP) network; querying a data-transfer-rate database configured to store predetermined data-transfer-rate values; receiving an indicator at the session exchange device that the portion of the session description is not associated with a predefined data-transfer-rate value; and sending a request for a user-defined data-transfer-rate value in response to the indicator, wherein the user-defined data-transfer-rate value indicates a maximum or minimum bandwidth allocation that modifies, after the media session is established, a bandwidth associated with transmitting packets of the same media session from the session exchange device.