Patent ID: 8184638

Claim:
A method comprising: via a wide area network packet switch: responsive to obtaining a first routable address of a first H.323 entity: routing an audio portion of a call via a first network path associated with a first quality of service associated with the first H.323 entity and a data portion of the call via a second network path associated with a second quality of service associated with the first H.323 entity; wherein: the first routable address is provided by a non-gatekeeper database associated with a wide area network-based intelligent service controller; the call is an H.323 multimedia communication between a second H.323 entity and the first H.323 entity; the first routable address is obtained via a conversion of an alias address of the first H.323 entity by the non-gatekeeper database; and the alias address is kept fixed as the first H.323 entity moves from a first domain to a second domain.