Patent ID: 7788383

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a transceiver configured to be coupled to a network; and a streaming media client in data communication with the transceiver; wherein the streaming media client is configured to send a connection request to communicate with an endpoint coupled to the network through the transceiver, the connection request comprising a plurality of potential configurations; and the streaming media client is configured to perform a connectivity check with the endpoint through the transceiver, the streaming media client is configured to acquire data representative of a selected configuration from the plurality of potential configurations during the connectivity check; wherein the connectivity request comprises a username fragment and a message integrity check; wherein the data representative of the selected configuration includes an Interactive Connectivity Exchange “ICE” u-frag attribute and an ICE-pwd attribute; and wherein the streaming media client is further configured to correlate an ICE u-frag attribute and an ICE-pwd attribute in the data representative of the selected configuration with the ICE u-frag attribute and an ICE-pwd attribute in the connectivity request.