Patent ID: 8605907

Claim:
A method of modifying Multimedia Internet KEYing (MIKEY) protocol to support extended key-management messages (KMMs), the method comprising: a first device performing: constructing a KMM, the KMM directed to a second device; determining that the KMM is an extended KMM related to a key-management operation that is not supported by the MIKEY protocol; signaling the extended KMM in at least one field of a MIKEY message, wherein the field of the MIKEY message is used as a signal that the KMM is an extended KMM; and sending the MIKEY message to the second device; wherein the extended KMM comprises a key-management protocol message constructed using a key-management protocol separate from the MIKEY protocol; and wherein signaling the extended KMM in the at least one field of the MIKEY message comprises inserting the key-management protocol message into the at least one field of the MIKEY message.