Patent ID: 8886789

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a request to establish a communication session between at least a first communication device associated with a first user and second communication device associated with a second user; sequencing at least one anchor point in the communication session during set-up of the communication session, wherein the at least one anchor point monitors and controls the communication session for an application to leverage during the communication session and the at least one anchor point server is inserted as a Back-to-Back User Agent in a signaling path of the communication session; and establishing the communication session and including the anchor point in the signaling path of the communication session; determining, after the communication session has been established, that a first application which was not initially a part of the communication session is to control at least part of the communication session; and based on the determining step, allowing the at least one anchor point to serve as a communication session control point for the first application.