Patent ID: 9391810
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A method of communicating data packets bearing the media of a telephony communication, comprising: establishing a first communications channel through a network of a service provider between an element of an Internet protocol (IP) telephony system and a telephony device; establishing a second communications channel through the network of the service provider between an element of the IP telephony system and the telephony device, wherein at least one or more of a first endpoint and a second endpoint of the first communication channel has at least one or more of an IP address and port number that differs from a corresponding endpoint of the second communication channel; transmitting a first sub-stream of a stream of data packets bearing the media of a telephony communication between the telephony device and the IP telephony system over the first communications channel; and transmitting a second sub-stream of the stream of data packets bearing the media of the telephony communication between the telephony device and the IP telephony system over the second communications channel.