Patent ID: 7889636

Claim:
A method for implementing a mid-call policy in a Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) environment, comprising: facilitating communication on a first path between a first location and a second location during a call using a reservation of bandwidth established by a first QoS (QoS) agent and a second QoS agent for each of a video portion and an audio portion of the call, wherein the first location is associated with the first QoS agent and the second location is associated with the second QoS agent; determining whether a mid-call failure occurs in the reservation for the video portion or the audio portion of the call between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, wherein the first endpoint is associated with the first QoS agent and the first location and the second endpoint is associated with the second QoS agent and the second location; determining a mid-call policy if the mid-call failure occurs in the reservation for the video portion or the audio portion of the call between the first endpoint and the second endpoint, the mid-call policy including re-routing the failed video portion or the failed audio portion of the call to a second path between the first location and the second location; applying the mid-call policy separately to the video portion and the audio portion depending on which of the video portion and the audio portion suffers a mid-call failure in its respective reservation if the mid-call failure occurs in the reservation for the call between the first endpoint and the second endpoint.