Profile-Based P2P VoIP Session Facilitation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Peer-to-peer (P2P) VoIP products lack features required for enterprise-class service, limiting their acceptance among enterprise consumers despite improved quality.

Innovation Solution

The system employs profile information associated with session participants to facilitate communication sessions over a P2P network by receiving identification information, gathering profile data, and using it to conduct or facilitate the communication, enhancing the P2P VoIP experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If P2P network architecture is used for VoIP, then cost and decentralization are improved, but feature completeness and enterprise-class service capabilities deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedeployment costVSAvoidenterprise-class features

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the P2P network into two functional layers: the overlay network for decentralized peer-to-peer communication and the underlying transport network for reliable data transmission. This segmentation allows the system to maintain P2P cost advantages while incorporating enterprise-grade features through the structured overlay layer that supports profile information, service routing, and quality management.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces profile information as an intermediary element that mediates between P2P participants. This profile data structure acts as a mediator carrying service-level agreements, routing information, and quality parameters, enabling enterprise-class service capabilities to emerge from the decentralized P2P architecture without requiring centralized control.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If P2P network architecture is used for VoIP, then decentralization is improved, but service control and management capabilities deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovedecentralizationVSAvoidservice control

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by establishing profile information and service agreements before P2P communication sessions begin. This pre-configuration of routing rules, quality parameters, and service level agreements enables automated service control during communication, resolving the contradiction between decentralization and service management capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where profile information is dynamically updated and exchanged during P2P sessions. This feedback loop allows participants to adjust service parameters, report quality metrics, and modify routing decisions in real-time, providing service control capabilities in the decentralized P2P environment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10681121B2Profile information based on participant identity for peer-to-peer sessions

Publication Date: 2020.06.09 AVAYA INC

AI summary

A method is employed in association with a communication session over a peer-to-peer network between a first node associated with a first session participant and a second node associated with a second session participant. In the method, identification information identifying the second session participant is received. Profile information descriptive of the second session participant is gathered using the identification information. The communication session is conducted using the profile information descriptive of the second session participant.