Patent ID: 8937889
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for inter-node signaling in a conferencing network, the method comprising: at a first cascaded mixer node: selecting a plurality of media flow payloads; generating a set of bundled conference payloads associated with a plurality of conference calls, wherein each bundled conference payload includes media flow payloads from the plurality of media flow payloads that are part of the same conference call of the plurality of conference calls, an identifier for the conference call, and a node identifier for each media flow payload in the conference call, and wherein each bundled conference payload further identifies for each media flow payload in the conference call whether the first cascaded mixer node is a root node or a leaf node; bundling the set of bundled conference payloads into a payload of a single packet; and sending the single packet to a second cascaded mixer node.