Patent ID: 7617319

Claim:
A method for optimizing transcoder resources in a multimedia session, the multimedia session using a Session Description Protocol (SDP) offer, the SDP offer listing one or more media types, each media type having a rating, the method comprising: receiving one or more SDP offers from a plurality of user devices; filtering out the media types from each of the one or more SDP offers based on a rating range; queuing the SDP offer from the one or more SDP offers in a set if the SDP offer comprises more than one of the media types; sorting the one or more queued SDP offers in the set based on the rating of the media types listed in the one or more queued SDP offers; selecting one of the media types from each of the one or more SDP offers by processing each of the one or more queued SDP offers in the set based on the order of sorting; allocating resources of one or more transcoders for transcoding the one of the media types; and establishing multimedia session between the plurality of user devices using the allocated resources of the one or more transcoders.