Patent ID: 8321566

Claim:
A method to control communication between applications that communicate over a network comprising: providing in non-transitory media a registry that indicates authorized AppIDs associated with a multiplicity of A2A Application to application enabled applications suitable to run on endpoint devices coupled to a network suitable for delivery of multimedia information and respective corresponding secret information for each respective AppID; receiving over the network by an application management server a request for authorization for an A2A enabled application associated with a given AppID running on a first endpoint device to create a media connection; wherein the authorization request includes the given AppID and a token that is generated as a function of at least the secret information corresponding to the given AppID; in response to the authorization request, determining by the application management server whether the given AppID and the corresponding secret information used to generate the token within the authorization request match an authorized AppID and corresponding secret information indicated within the registry; sending an authorization over the network by the application management server for the A2A enabled application associated with the given AppID to create the media connection in response to a determination that the given AppID and the corresponding secret information used to generate the token does match an authorized AppID and corresponding secret information indicated within the registry.