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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2007
Amir Ansari, Plano, TX (US);
George A. Cowgill, Farmersville, TX (US);
Leon E. Nicholls, Plano, TX (US);
Jude P. Ramayya, Wylie, TX (US);
Ramprakash Masina, Wylie, TX (US);
Atousa Raissyan, Potomac, MD (US);
Wu Guan, Allen, TX (US);
Amir Ansari, Plano, TX (US);
George A. Cowgill, Farmersville, TX (US);
Leon E. Nicholls, Plano, TX (US);
Jude P. Ramayya, Wylie, TX (US);
Ramprakash Masina, Wylie, TX (US);
Atousa Raissyan, Potomac, MD (US);
Wu Guan, Allen, TX (US);
Prodea Systems, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A gateway device at a user premises edge of a wide area network implements a method for rapidly routing a media session. for an application layer service. The gateway device receivers a request from a first endpoint device to create the media session with a second device. The request includes an application layer identifier for the second device. The method involves accessing a routing table within the gateway device using the application layer identifier and obtaining, from the internal routing table a network layer address for communication with the second device. The gateway device then creates a route for the media session for the application layer service via bi-directional network layer communications through at least one of its interfaces using the network layer address.