Patent ID: 7062548

Claim:
A system for management and control of multimedia communications resources comprising: (a) communications pathway; (b) an originating multimedia computing device coupled to said communications pathway with requested quality of service requirements; (c) one or more destination multimedia computing devices coupled to said communications pathway; (d) one or more quality of service management components coupled to said communications pathway; said one or more quality of service management components determines communications pathway availability for multimedia communications at said requested quality of service requirements in response to a request from said originating multimedia computing device to establish communications with said destination multimedia computing devices, and wherein said one or more quality of service management components send a positive or negative response to said originating multimedia computing device, said response corresponding to said request, whereupon said originating multimedia computing device takes alternative action upon receipt of said negative response; wherein said alternative action includes one of initiating a call back when said communications pathway is available at said requested quality of service, initiating camping on the communications pathway with said requested quality of service, and redirecting the communications through an alternate communications pathway with said requested quality of service.