Patent ID: 6947417

Claim:
A media platform for providing media services in a voice over data call over a network, comprising: a resource manager that manages resources used to support the media services; and an audio processing platform that manages the call and the media services provided in the call, the audio processing platform including: a network interface having a set of packet processors that process packets of audio data entering and exiting the media platform in the call being handled, a set of audio processors that process the audio data according to the media services provided in the call, wherein each audio processor has at least one internal audio source and a switch that noiselessly switches a plurality of internal streams of packets having audio data sent between a plurality of internal audio sources in one or more audio processors and packet processors in the network interface, wherein the switch further delivers the plurality of internal streams of packets to the network interface which controls the transmission of synchronous packets carrying audio from the plurality of internal streams in the call over the network.