Patent ID: 9571552
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a network component that facilitates a communication session set-up process among endpoints in a communication network, the method comprising: receiving, by the network component, a call invite from a first endpoint directed towards a second endpoint, the call invite identifying a first plurality of codecs available at the first endpoint; identifying, by the network component, a second plurality of codecs available at the second endpoint; determining, by the network component, a network component resource from among a plurality of network component resources with a highest utilization from among the plurality of network component resources; determining, by the network component, an impact of each codec pair from the first plurality of codecs and the second plurality of codecs on the network component resource with the highest utilization, ranging from a codec pair with a highest impact to a codec pair with a lowest impact; and selecting, by a codec selector of the network component, the codec pair with the lowest impact on the network component resource with the highest utilization, the codec pair comprising a first codec from among the first plurality of codecs and a second codec from among the second plurality of codecs.