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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2012
Priscilla Lau, Fremont, CA (US);
John Bittenbender, Bloomsburg, PA (US);
Robin Clair, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Priscilla Lau, Fremont, CA (US);
John Bittenbender, Bloomsburg, PA (US);
Robin Clair, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Methods, devices, and storage mediums for receiving, by an ingress network-to-network interface device, a signaling message to establish a communication session; adding an identifier that identifies the ingress network-to-network interface device; transmitting the signaling message that includes the identifier to another device of a network with which the ingress network-to-network interface device belongs; selecting an egress network-to-network interface device based on the identifier and a minimum path criterion between the ingress network-to-network interface device and the egress network-to-network interface device; and transmitting the signaling message to the egress network-to-network interface device.