Patent ID: 8392581

Claim:
A computing device, comprising: a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) session activation manager module in communication with a plurality of network elements within a network, the SIP session activation manager module facilitating an end-to-end SIP session between an originating user device and a terminating user device and is to: receive a SIP request from a first network element of the plurality of network elements, the first network element being a nearest network element in a SIP sequence to the originating user device, send a related SIP request to a last network element of the plurality of network elements, the last network element being a nearest network element in the SIP sequence to the terminating user device and the related SIP request bypasses an intermediate network element of the plurality of network elements, the bypassed intermediate network element being in a first state, send a customized packet message to the bypassed intermediate network element being in the first state, the customized packet message being different than the related SIP request, the intermediate network element being between the first network element and the last network element in the SIP sequence, and the customized packet message includes including SIP setup commands for the intermediate network element; and receive, from the last network element, a message indicating that the related SIP request was successfully received by the terminating user device.