Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a dynamic and flexible media gateway termination identifier

摘要

Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a dynamic and flexible media gateway termination identifier are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for flexibly identifying terminations within a media gateway. The method includes receiving a syntax for representing terminations of a media gateway, communicating the syntax to a network node for processing media gateway control messages, and, at the network node, processing a media gateway control message using the syntax to identify a termination of the media gateway.

主权项

1. A method for flexibly identifying terminations within a media gateway, the method comprising:
at a network node for processing gateway control protocol (GCP) messages: receiving a termination identifier (TID) definition that describes a new TID syntax used by the network node to identify terminations of the media gateway while interpreting incoming messages or generating outgoing messages, wherein the TID definition includes a flexible expression for identifying terminations of the media gateway in any one of a plurality of different formats, wherein the flexible expression includes a flexible hierarchical structure having a root level and a plurality of different delimited sublevels, and wherein the plurality of different sublevels includes at least a prefix for identifying a type of resource, a numerical range, and a path domain name; installing the new TID syntax; verifying whether the new TID syntax is successfully installed via generating and parsing of at least one test message; and in response to successful parsing of the at least one test message using the new TID syntax, processing incoming or outgoing GCP messages using the new TID syntax to identify a termination of the media gateway; and in response to unsuccessful parsing of the at least one test message using the new TID syntax, processing incoming or outgoing GCP messages using a default TID syntax to identify the termination of the media gateway; wherein the network node comprises a media gateway controller; and wherein the media gateway and the media gateway controller use different native formats to identify terminations and wherein receiving a new TID syntax includes receiving a syntax having a format native to the media gateway.