Patent ID: 7929453
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A terminal device, comprising: a controlling element for processing Voice over IP (VoIP) data received from a plurality of network elements in a communication system and for determining quality information based on the received VoIP data, wherein the VoIP data is associated with a VoIP communication session between the terminal device and another terminal device; and a display element that presents a plurality of quality indicators adjusted according to the quality information during the VoiP communication session, wherein two or more quality indicators are presented corresponding to two or more independently operated networks being measured where at least one quality indicator represents quality information for a first independently operated network and at least a second quality indicator represents quality information for a second independently operated network; wherein the terminal device comprises one among a wireline and wireless customer premise equipment, and wherein each of the quality indicators corresponds to a select one among in-network and out-of-network portions of the communication system, wherein each of the quality indicators comprises a dynamic signal strength icon, wherein the dynamic signal strength icon comprises zero or more graphical bars, wherein a quality of communications of a portion of the communication system is represented by a number of graphical bars presented by the display element, and wherein the communication system comprises a hybrid of packet-switched and circuit-switched elements such that communications between terminal devices span the hybrid of the packet-switched and circuit-switched elements, wherein at least one of the network elements of the plurality of network elements supports packet-switched communication, and wherein at least one of the network elements of the plurality of network elements supports circuit-switched communication.