Patent ID: 8848543
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of automatically controlling traffic between communications peers, the method comprising: performing path quality assessments for a first portion of a path between a first communications peer and a second communications peer at a first historical path quality assessment and prediction system; performing path quality assessments for a second portion of the path between the first communications peer and the second communications peer at a second historical path quality assessment and prediction system; concatenating the path quality assessments for the first and second portions of the path between the first communications peer and the second communications peer at the second communications peer or the second historical path quality assessment and prediction system, wherein the path quality assessments include one or more quality metrics that are indicated in an Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) mechanism; and making a path selection decision at the second communications peer or the second historical path quality assessment and prediction system based on the concatenated path quality assessments.