Patent ID: 9614905
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method of operating a communication system to establish communication sessions between an origination network and a peer-to-peer network, the method comprising: receiving session signaling to establish a session between an origination device in the origination network and a destination node in the peer-to-peer network, wherein the session signaling includes a participant identifier associated with the origination device; processing the participant identifier to determine if persona information that identifies an originating participant and an entity associated with the originating participant is available for display by a destination device registered as the destination node on the peer-to-peer network and, if the persona information is available, transferring the persona information for delivery to and display by the destination device to a destination participant; establishing the session between the origination device and the destination device over the origination network and the peer-to-peer network; and exchanging user communications for the session between the origination device and the destination device, wherein establishing the session comprises establishing a first leg from the origination device to a gateway wherein the origination device is not registered as a node on the peer-to-peer network and wherein the gateway is registered as a node on the peer-to-peer network and a second leg from the gateway to the destination device.