Patent ID: 8270392

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, at a session controller, session data from a session-detail record, the session data being associated with at least a portion of a call over a Session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network, the session controller being a session aware component; modifying, at the session controller, a priority indicator associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) packet transmitted over the call based on the session data, the priority indicator indicates a priority to transmit the IP packet, wherein the priority indicator is a first priority indicator and the IP packet is a first IP packet; and identifying, in a priority database accessed by the session controller, a transmission priority value associated with the first IP packet; sending an instruction to an endpoint, the instruction being configured to trigger the endpoint to modify, based on the transmission priority value, a second priority indicator associated with a second IP packet associated with the call, wherein the endpoint does not have access to the priority database and is not configured to modify the second priority indicator associated with the second IP packet until the instruction is received.