Patent ID: 8619600

Claim:
A method for determining a call path to assign a call, said method comprising: receiving a call request; determining at a call control manager at least two potential call paths over a packet network over which a call associated with the call request may be placed; accessing measured network performance information associated with each node segment on the respective at least two potential call paths, wherein the network performance information associated with each node segment includes a first set of network performance information for communicating in a first direction on the node segment and a second set of network performance information for communicating in a second direction on the node segment; determining a value associated with each potential call path, each value indicative of communications operations on each potential call path, wherein determining the value accounts for performance issues for network nodes along each potential call path caused by a lack of memory resources at a network node along a potential call path, and wherein determining the value includes determining values representative of a slowest communications speed over each of the network nodes along each respective communications path; and assigning a call path to the call using the call control manager based on the determined values, wherein assigning the call path to the call by the call control manager based on the determined values includes assigning the call path having the lowest associated value.