METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS TO INCREASE MEDIA RESOURCE FUNCTION AVAILABILITY

摘要

Communications methods, apparatus and systems for detecting a status condition indicative of a failure of a media processing entity and providing media redirection to increase media resource function availability. One embodiment of the present invention is a method that includes directing, by a first Session Border Controller (SBC), a first media call flow of a first call through a first media content processing entity to a second SBC, detecting, at one of said first or second SBCs, a status condition indicative of a failure condition for the first media content processing entity, and redirecting, by the SBC that detects the status condition indicative of a failure condition, the first media call flow for the first call so that the first media call flow passes through a second media content processing entity instead of through the first media content processing entity without terminating the first call.

主权项

1. A communications method comprising:
directing, by a first Session Border Controller, a first media call flow through a first media content processing entity to a second Session Border Controller, said first media content processing entity performing a media content processing function on the first media call flow, said first media call flow being part of a first call; detecting, at one of said first or second Session Border Controllers, a status condition indicative of a failure condition for the first media content processing entity; redirecting, by the Session Border Controller that detects the status condition indicative of a failure condition, the first media call flow for the first call so that the first media call flow passes through a second media content processing entity instead of through the first media content processing entity without terminating the first call.