Patent ID: 9729379
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method comprising: maintaining a media stream through a first network equipment while suspending an associated media stream connection in a communication network by receiving, from a first user, within a second network equipment a trigger comprising a first signalling command for temporarily suspending a media stream connection between the first user and a second user, where first signalling command comprises a SIP/SDP-command indicating ‘Call-on-Hold’; modifying the first signalling command and instead sending to the second user a second signalling command for maintaining the media stream connection, where the second signalling command comprises a SIP/SDP-command indicating normal send and receive such that the maintaining does not shut down the media stream connection; blocking the maintained media stream connection between the first user and the second user by the second network equipment; and coordinating, by a central controller of the second network equipment, based upon the receiving of the first signal by the second network equipment, both the sending of the second signalling command to the second user for maintaining the media stream and the blocking of the maintained media stream by the second network equipment, where the receiving of the first signal by the second network equipment at least partially triggers both the sending of the second signalling command to the second user for maintaining the media stream and the blocking of the maintained media stream by the second network equipment which are coordinated by the central controller of the second network equipment.