Patent ID: 8488592

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for providing a unified record of a multi-hop session in a VoIP network, the method comprising the steps of: establishing the multi-hop session between a calling party and a called party through at least a first node and a second node in the VoIP network, producing a first record of the multi-hop session in the first node including a data record for a first node ingress leg and a data record for a first node egress leg and storing the first record in the first node; producing a second record of the multi-hop session in the second node including a data record for a second node ingress leg and a data record for a second node egress leg and storing the second record in the second node; and retrieving the first and second records from the first and second nodes, and consolidating and mediating the first record and the second record to provide the unified record of the multi-hop session, storing the unified record in a session manager database so that users access the unified record of the multi-hop session in a single database, and adding a tag to the unified record creating a link to enable retrieval of the unified record; wherein data of the multi-hop session is transmitted using a Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP) and wherein consolidated data records belonging to separate session control domains are merged in real-time in response to determining that the records are descriptive of a common call.