Patent ID: 7701971

Claim:
An apparatus for addressing compatibility in a session protocol environment, comprising: a communications platform comprising at least one memory element, the communications platform operable to communicate with a first endpoint and a second endpoint and to recognize signaling capabilities of the first and second endpoints, wherein the endpoints seek to communicate with each other in a communication session, and wherein the first endpoint is associated with a first protocol and the second endpoint is associated with a second protocol; and a media termination point (MTP) operable to communicate with the endpoints and the communications platform, wherein the media termination point is: dynamically inserted by the communications platform into a stream that involves the first and second endpoints if a signaling compatibility issue is present amongst the endpoints, wherein if an out-of-band digit from the first endpoint is received by the communications platform, the out-of-band digit is sent to the MTP, which is operable to inject a digit associated with the second protocol into the communication session such that a mapping occurs between the digits for the first and second protocols; and dynamically removed by the communications platform from the stream in response to a determination that the signaling compatibility issue is no longer present.