Patent ID: 8630284

Claim:
A system for IP telephony communications, comprising: a processor; a memory, wherein the memory has stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: establish a first call path with a first call appliance in response to a first call; establish a second call path with a router, wherein the second call path is joined to the first call path for establishing a first voice connection for transmitting first voice media during the first call between the first call appliance and a second call appliance coupled to the router; detect, while the first voice connection is active, a second call from a second destination to be routed to the first call appliance; determine that the second call is to be accepted; establish a third call path with the second destination in response to determining that the second call is to be accepted; join the first call path and the third call path for establishing a second voice connection for transmitting second voice media during the second call between the first call appliance and the second destination; and disjoin the first call path and the second call path in response to joining the first call path and the third call path.