Patent ID: 6754181
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
A method for routing a media communication to an internet telephony gateway in a hybrid network comprising:receiving a request from a client computer by a directory service for a list of one or more candidate internet telephony gateways; accessing a database of a plurality of internet telephony gateways; selecting by the directory service one or more candidate internet telephony gateways from the database based on a set of criteria; transmitting a message to each of the one or more candidate internet telephony gateways from the database which were selected based on a set of criteria wherein the message instructs the candidate internet telephony gateways to ping the client computer; receiving the ping results from the candidate internet telephony gateways; ranking the order of the candidate internet telephony gateways based on the ping results; and transmitting the list of the one or more candidate internet telephony gateways to the computer client.