Patent ID: 8259706

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, at a first endpoint, session data associated with a first Internet Protocol (IP) packet, the first IP packet being associated with a session within a Session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network, the session being associated with a call; identifying, in a priority database accessed by the first endpoint, a transmission priority value associated with the first IP packet; and sending an instruction from the first endpoint to a second endpoint, the instruction being based on the session data, the instruction being configured to trigger the second endpoint to modify, based on the transmission priority value, a priority indicator associated with a second IP packet associated with the call, wherein the first endpoint and the second endpoint are each configured to transmit signaling packets and media-content packets, wherein the second endpoint does not have access to the priority database and is not configured to modify the priority indicator associated with the second IP packet until the instruction is received.