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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2013
Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);
Hal S. Beech, Olathe, KS (US);
Pierce Andrew Gorman, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Nicolas A. Nehme Antoun, Olathe, KS (US);
Philip Martin Kunkel, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A call setup system and method configured to setup a wireless media session extending from a first network to a second network are provided. The system in one example embodiment includes media gateways (MG-Bs) of a first network interface of an interconnect network and a soft switch B (SSW-B) within the first network. The SSW-B receives a media session initiation from a wireless communication device B (WCD-B) of the first network, wherein the WCD-B is attempting to initiate a media session to a wireless communication device A (WCD-A) of the second network, obtains a MG-Bx network address of a selected MG-Bx of the one or more MG-Bs, forwards a call initiation information to a SSW-A of the second network, and receives a media gateway MG-Ax network address from the SSW-A, wherein the WCD-B of first network is placed in communication with the WCD-A of the second network via the selected MG-Bx and the selected MG-Ax.