Patent ID: 8699366
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of automatically controlling in-bound traffic from a first communications peer to a second communications peer based on an input received from a historical path quality assessment and prediction system, the method comprising: automatically setting-up, by the second communications peer, one or more relays; sending, by the second communications peer to the first communications peer, a transport address of the one or more relays and one or more local addresses of the second communications peer for direct communications, per an Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) mechanism; nominating, by the second communications peer, a candidate pair of a transport address of the one or more relays and a local address of the one or more local addresses of the second communications peer based on the input received from the historical path quality assessment and prediction system; and indicating, by the second communications peer, the nominated candidate pair with a flag using the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) mechanism.