Patent ID: 8743870
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: associating an ingress call peer with a call being processed by matching the ingress call peer to one or more policies so as to identify an egress call peer for the call, wherein the ingress call peer is a logical grouping for calls associated with the incoming of the call and wherein the egress call peer is a logical grouping for calls associated with the outgoing of the call, wherein matching the ingress call peer to the one or more policies is based on an Internet Protocol (IP) subnet, and wherein the one or more policies specify call admission control parameters for an ingress network and determine the egress call peer for transmitting the ingress call to an egress network; matching a first policy to the ingress call, the first policy relating to one of: peer media routing, peer group media routing, or realm media routing for routing; matching a second policy to the ingress call, the second policy relating to inter domain or intra domain calls where the domain is one of: the peer, the peer group, or the realm the second policy including a policy definition having a policy definition value for policy precedence and a policy definition value for policy on or off, the policy precedence including a ranking value to permit comparison of relative precedence values; and using the highest ranking precedence value of the precedence values for each domain to associate the ingress call peer with the call.