Patent ID: 8898317

Claim:
A method of distributing media, comprising: establishing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communications session call between a caller and a communications server; transmitting from the communications server to a media server a message that comprises Session Description Protocol (SDP) parameters for media to be provided by the media server without renegotiating the session call; delivering the media to the caller in a packet format in accordance with the Real Time Transport Protocol (RTP) and reusing the same network socket as source IP and port numbers and updating any RTP timestamps and sequence numbers; forming a proprietary message to include the SDP parameters for the media provided by the media server, a data field comprising a last sequence number for the RTP packet, a data field comprising a last timestamp for the RTP packet, a data field comprising a real time and last time as to when the RTP packet was sent, and a data field comprising a version and message type for the RTP packet; and transmitting the proprietary message to the media server.