Patent ID: 7764680

Claim:
A communication system comprising a terminal, communication node and a higher stratum level communication node, said terminal and said higher stratum level communication node performing communication by a communication link via said terminal and said higher stratum level communication node, wherein: said communication link is set up between said terminal and said higher stratum level communication node using an encapsulating header, and said communication node has a path link information notifying means which notifies identifying information of the communication link which passes via the communication node to the higher stratum level communication node when the processing load of the communication node exceeds a certain threshold, and the higher stratum level communication node has a target link packet filtering means which filters the packets transmitted and received using said communication link which received said notice; said communication node includes restriction candidate IP address notifying means which specifies the IP address of said terminal from the identifying information of said communication link, and notifies a call control server; the call control server includes restriction candidate storage means which stores the IP address notified by said restriction candidate IP address notifying means, and when said call control server is performing call connection processing for said terminal, if the IP address of the terminal is stored by said restriction candidate storage means, call connection is not performed; and wherein, when the importance parameter contained in the received call connection request message shows that a target call is important, call connection is performed even when the IP address of said terminal is stored by said restriction candidate storage means.