Patent ID: 8325605

Claim:
A system for managing media communicated to a multiplexer in a media distribution network, the system comprising: an encoder for encoding media received from a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) enabled media source into one or more media streams; a SIP enabled multiplexer for multiplexing the one or more media streams, wherein when a request is received from the SIP enabled media source to transmit the media at a level of communication requiring a level of resources greater than an available amount of resources in the media distribution network, the SIP enabled multiplexer facilitates controlling the level of communication at which the media is received from the SIP enabled media source to be commensurate with the available amount of resources in the media distribution network; and a computing device having a data store associated with the SIP enabled multiplexer, wherein the computing device facilitates the SIP enabled multiplexer controlling the media received from the SIP enabled media source.