Patent ID: 6950425

Claim:
A method of management and control of voice calls in an integrated voice and data service network, comprising a first step of discriminating whether or not a packet input to a first gateway in said integrated network is a voice call packet, a second step of deciding, when the packet is discriminated as a voice call packet at said first step, whether or not the related voice call packet can be carried over a transmission path based on both an available band of the transmission path to an opposing second gateway and a required band of the related voice call packet, wherein said second step comprises a step of first deciding whether or not signaling information can be carried over said transmission path based on the required band of the voice call packet, discriminated by said first step, carrying the signaling information and a step, when it is decided it can be carried, of subsequently deciding whether or not voice information can be carried over said transmission path based on the required band of the voice call packets carrying the voice information; and a third step of transferring the related voice call packet to said second gateway only when it is decided that it can be carried.