Patent ID: 8233484

Claim:
A method of setting up a communication session between communication clients, via a network including at least one address translation equipment, the method comprising: coding, by one of the communication clients on a client side of the network, a public physical address of the one of the communication clients; sending, by the one of the communication clients on the client side of the network, a signal message via the at least one address translation equipment, the one of the communication clients having the public physical address and a private physical address, the signal message containing the public physical address of the one of the communication clients in a first location, and the signal message including the coded public physical address of the one of the communication clients in a distinct second location before the sending the signal message by the one of the communication clients on the client side of the network, the coded public physical address being received by another one of the communication clients without modification; and setting up a communication session between said sending one of the communication clients and said another one of the communication clients, via the network, based on the coded public physical address.