Patent ID: 9560085
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of communicating data packets bearing media of a telephony communication, comprising: establishing a first communications channel through a network of a service provider between a telephony device and an element of an Internet protocol (IP) telephony system; establishing a second communications channel through the network of the service provider between the telephony device and an element of the IP telephony system, wherein at least one or more of a first endpoint and a second endpoint of the first communications 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; receiving what was sent by the telephony device as a first sub-stream of a stream of data packets bearing the media of the telephony communication from the element of the IP telephony system over the first communications channel; receiving what was sent by the telephony device as a second sub-stream of the stream of data packets bearing the media of the telephony communication from the element of the IP telephony system over the second communications channel; and combining the first and second sub-streams to re-create the stream of data packets bearing the media of the telephony communication.