Patent ID: 8165118

Claim:
A computer-executed method for facilitating voice calls over a content centric network (CCN), comprising: receiving, by a computer, from a CCN user a CCN packet containing an expressed interest in receiving voice calls directed to the CCN user, wherein the CCN packet can be addressed, located, and disseminated by a unique and persistent CCN name, wherein the CCN name contains authentication information, and wherein the CCN packet can be self-authenticated using the authentication information; receiving from a second network a packet for a voice call directed to the CCN user, wherein the second network is not a CCN; forwarding to the CCN user the packet received from the second network with a CCN name corresponding to the interest expressed by the CCN user after translating the received packet to a CCN packet format; forwarding a second CCN packet from the CCN user for the voice call to the second network after translating the second CCN packet to a non-CCN packet format; allowing a device in the second network to initiate and maintain the voice call directed to the CCN user based on a CCN name associated with the voice call, without maintaining state information associated with the voice call; and allowing the voice call to be terminated when no interest message corresponding to the voice call is received from the CCN user for a predetermined period.