David M Cornelius

US Patent:

7167486, Jan 23, 2007

Filed:

Jan 19, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/766027

Inventors:

David Cornelius - Saratoga CA, US
Edwin J. Basart - Los Altos CA, US

Assignee:

Shoretel, Inc. - Sunnyvale CA

International Classification:

H04J 4/16

US Classification:

370467

Abstract:

The number of holes that are opened in a firewall for internet telephony is limited to a first hole used for call control and a second hole used for audio traffic. Fixed destination ports for telephony traffic and call control traffics are created at a destination. Media streams are received at the telephony fixed destination port. The source of each media stream is commanded to provide a unique identifier for each media stream arriving at the destination from each source. Each media stream is identified by a unique identifier provided by the source. The unique identifier for each media stream is communicated to the destination by each source over call control. All telephony traffic is received only at the fixed destination port or telephony and all call control is received only at the fixed destination port for call control.