We're happy to announce that our latest SIP Scaling patent has been approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. "System and Method for Geographic SIP Scaling" was issued as U.S. Patent Number 8,650,243 on February 11, 2014. The patent continues the spirit of innovation that has fostered our greatest achievements, the crucial breakthroughs that translate not just to more customers, but to broader considerations in the realm of technological invention.
The patent relates to the geographic scalability and uptime of real-time communications services, such as OnSIP. The innovation allows us to continuously scale the OnSIP platform, transparently migrate customers around the OnSIP network, and provide a more robust infrastructure overall. This form of scalability is at the very heart of OnSIP's core architecture, and it has proven to be a critical mechanism during extraordinary occasions.
OnSIP's geographically distributed architecture relies on technological methods outlined in our recent SIP scaling patent
"When Hurricane Sandy struck in New York City, all of our customers were redistributed to our data center in Los Angeles," said OnSIP Principal Engineer Eric Tamme. "Our customers experienced no service disruptions during this calamity, and it’s thanks to the architecture we’ve outlined in this patent. The patent is, for me, what defines and differentiates us from other providers and showcases our technically innovative, standards-based approach to real-time communications.”
The patent expresses itself in several ways on the OnSIP network. In an overarching sense, the patent operates as a distributed system configured to provide SIP multimedia communications services between SIP endpoints. Along with the uptime benefits associated with a geographically distributed communications platform, OnSIP's implementation of this patent also allows OnSIP customers to negotiate NAT traversal with no complications.
“As you grow as a service provider, redundancy, reliability and operational costs become limiting factors to offering enterprise grade, real-time communications services over the Internet," said OnSIP President Rob Wolpov. "That's why we set out years ago to build a bulletproof underlying architecture that could support a massive user base with nothing more than distributed commodity hardware."
As a company, we're happy to enshrine a key component of our SIP scaling architecture into a standardized patent, and we look forward to turning more of our company's crucial developments into formally recognized innovations.