Patent ID: 9203871
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: a) at a processing entity, detecting a characteristic associated with a given device, the given device attempting to initiate a communication session over a packet based network via a session initiation message generated according to a particular session initiation protocol, wherein the characteristic of the given device is one of a hardware version, a vendor, a product manufacturer and a product model associated with the given device; b) at the processing entity, comparing the characteristic associated with the given device to a plurality of device characteristics stored in a data structure for determining a matching device characteristic from the plurality of device characteristics, the data structure storing associations between device characteristics and a plurality of session initiation protocols; c) at the processing entity, initiating an action when the matching device characteristic is associated with a session initiation protocol from the plurality of session initiation protocols that is not a pre-determined session initiation protocol.