Patent ID: 6804254
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
A method for maintaining media streaming to a telephony device, comprising:establishing a signaling link between a first telephony device and a second telephony device; establishing media streaming between the first telephony device and the second telephony device using a media termination point, whereby the media streaming between the first telephony device and the second telephony device passes through the media termination point; determining whether the second telephony device utilizes a protocol incompatible with a temporary termination of the established media streaming between the first and second telephony devices; generating the media termination point in response to a determination that the second telephony device utilizes a protocol incompatible with the temporary termination of the established media streaming between the first and second telephony devices; receiving a request to implement a telephony feature requiring temporary termination of the established media streaming between the first and second telephony devices; and temporarily terminating the established media streaming between the first telephony device and the media termination point while maintaining the media streaming between the second telephony device and the media termination point, and while maintaining the signaling link between the first and second telephony devices.