Patent ID: 8832280

Claim:
A method comprising: routing, by a media relay, initial interactive connectivity establishment (ICE) communications with a non-ICE endpoint device as a destination to a back-to-back user agent, the back-to-back user agent receiving at least a content of the initial ICE communications and forwarding the content to the non-ICE endpoint device; using a command module of a communication device, subsequent to the forwarding of at least the content of the initial ICE communications to the non-ICE endpoint device by the back-to-back user agent, issuing a first command to the media relay, the first command configured to cause the media relay to change the routing of at least subsequent ICE communications with the non-ICE endpoint device as the destination such that the media relay redirects the subsequent ICE to redirect communications that, prior to the change caused by the first command, were to be routed to the back-to-back user agent to the non-ICE endpoint device such that the media relay forwards at least the content of the subsequent ICE communications to the non-ICE endpoint device, wherein the first command changes a state of the non-ICE endpoint device so that the non-ICE endpoint device communicates with an interactive connectivity establishment (ICE) endpoint device initially providing communications through the back-to-back user agent; and issuing a second command to force the media relay to forward at least the content of the subsequent ICE communications to the non-ICE endpoint device rather than through an ICE client in the back-to-back user agent.