Patent ID: 7970014

Claim:
A method for providing a real-time communication connection between a first entity and a second entity via an Internet Protocol communication network the method comprising: fragmenting, by the first entity, at least one of a signaling traffic and a control traffic associated with the real-time communication connection; multiplexing, by the first entity, at least one of the fragments of the signaling traffic and the control traffic into a real-time traffic stream of the communication connection; generating, by the first entity, a resulting data stream including packets of the real-time traffic stream multiplexed with the fragments of at least one of the signaling traffic and the control traffic; assigning the packets of the real-time traffic stream an absolute transmission priority; transmitting said data stream from the first entity to the second entity via the Internet Protocol communication network, the packets of at least one of the signaling traffic and the control traffic being transmitted in fragments using an available space for transmission and without narrowing a bandwidth available for the packets of the real-time traffic stream; demultiplexing, by the second entity, said data stream and obtaining the fragments of at least one of the signaling traffic and the control traffic and the real-time traffic stream of a communication connection at the second entity; re-composing, by the second entity, the fragments of at least one of the signaling traffic and the control traffic; and generating, by the second entity, at least one of the signaling traffic and control traffic.