Patent ID: 7738440

Claim:
A method of assigning a set of network resources between network endpoints, said method comprising: using a first signaling interface to receive at an application manager a session initiation request sent by an application server associated with the network endpoints, said session initiation request for reserving resources between network endpoints for a session which is supported by an application on the application server, wherein the application manager is logically and physically decoupled from the application server; in response to the received session initiation request, using a second signaling interface to send a message from the application manager to a policy server, wherein the message includes at least some information extracted from the session initiation request and wherein the second signaling interface is a PCMM (PacketCable Multimedia) signaling interface and the first signaling interface is different from the second signaling interface; selecting, via the policy server, a set of network resources for creating a communication path connecting the network endpoints, wherein the policy server selects the set of network resources based on the PCMM message.