Patent ID: 7466691
Filing Date: 2008-12-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of handling circuit-switched media transmission over packet-switched access networks having a plurality of terminal devices, a gateway that operably couples a packet-switched access network to a circuit switched network wherein the circuit switched network comprises a circuit switch, the method comprising the steps of: (i) monitoring at the gateway a plurality of circuit-switched data streams passing between the gateway and the circuit switch to and from a plurality of terminal devices; (ii) comparing at least two data streams of the plurality of circuit-switched data streams at the gateway; (iii) determining at the gateway whether a first data stream of the at least two data streams and a second data stream of the at least two data streams form a communication between a first terminal device operably coupled to the circuit switch and a second terminal device operably coupled to the circuit switch; (iv) instructing the first terminal device and the second terminal device to communicate directly, based on a successful determination in step (iii); and (v) ceasing transmission of the first data stream and second data stream between the gateway and the first terminal device and second terminal device based on a successful determination in step (iii).