Patent ID: 7860990

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a session border controller (SBC) network controller configurable to operate within a Session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network comprising: a session detail record (SDR) receptor manager that receives, from a plurality of SBCs, SDRs generated by the SBCs and that stores the SDRs, the SDRs each including session data of a media session comprising session layer parameters and extrinsic parameters, wherein the session layer parameters include at least one of a call duration indicator, a start time indicator, an end time indicator, a source endpoint indicator, a destination endpoint indicator, a delay indicator, a media quality indicator, a packet loss indicator, a packet delay variance indicator, and a ratings factor (r-factor), wherein the extrinsic parameters include at least one of a time-of-day indicator, a day-of-week indicator, a number-of-calls indicator, and a route cost indicator parameter; and an alarm manager that processes the session data in the SDRs received from the SBCs with respect to an alarm condition and dynamically modifies one of a connection limit and a priority associated with a route through one or more of the SBCs when the processing indicates that an alarm-state changes.