Patent ID: 9231840
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M

Claim Text:
1. A system for optimizing a VoIP call session comprising: at least one processor; a non-transitory storage medium storing program instructions, which are executed by the at least one processor; an optimization engine, comprising at least a subset of the program instructions, configured to perform adaptive codec switching based on at least one of loss metric, a participant metric, and a quality of experience metric, wherein the codec switching is performed on at least one of a plurality of communication links associated with a telephony session executing within a multi-control unit (MCU), wherein each of the plurality of communication links is associated with a terminal device, wherein each of the terminal devices is able to execute a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application, wherein each application comprises of at least one audio codec; and a data store able to persist at least one of a link mapping, a switching list, and a telephony session data, wherein the switching list comprises at least one sublist comprising of at least one codec associated with the VoIP application, wherein the optimization engine is further configured to: