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System for managing voice over internet protocol communications in a network

US8185040B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateFeb 11, 2008
Grant dateMay 22, 2012
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Expiry dateMay 24, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M2203/2066
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The VoIP Management System is capable of identifying voice-based wireless devices and denying wireless communication services to these devices. The VoIP Management System also identifies VoIP packet data traffic, and this communication connection can be denied. The VoIP Management System can also identify encrypted VoIP packet data traffic (for a unique Source -Destination IP pair) based upon VoIP packet data traffic characteristics: packet timing, packet rate, and packet size, since VoIP services have a distinct packet data traffic pattern. When a VoIP call is detected, the VoIP Management System disrupts the identified VoIP packet data traffic, without modifying the packet data content, such as by adding sufficient latency to the Packet Data Unit of the packet data traffic to make the VoIP services unusable.

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