System and method for integrating session initiation protocol communication in a telecommunications platform

• US 10,560,490 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2018
• Issued: 02/11/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Twilio, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Twilio, Inc.
• Inventors: Boerjesson, Jonas, Wolthuis, John, Lawson, Jeffrey, Cooke, Evan
• Primary Examiner(s): Survillo, Oleg
• Application Number:
  US16/039,950
• Publication Number:
  US 20180324223A1
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/106 across networks, e.g. mapping telephone numbers to data network addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1013 Network architectures, gateways, control or user entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1045 Proxies, e.g. for session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1046 Call controllers; Call servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2473 Telephone terminals interfacing a personal computer, e.g. using an API (Application Programming Interface) details of API H04M7/0021
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating signaling and media communication at a communication platform that includes receiving a communication request to a resource, wherein the communication request specifies a destination endpoint; establishing signaling and media communication in a session with the destination endpoint of the communication request; registering a callback resource to a signaling event of the session; monitoring signaling messages of the session; detecting the signaling event in the signaling messages of the session; and triggering the callback resource upon detecting the signaling event.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

registering a callback resource identifier with a first account of a multi-tenant communication platform system, the callback resource identifier identifying an external system associated with the first account;

receiving, by the multi-tenant communication platform system, a request to initiate a communication session between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, the request associated with the first account;

establishing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication session between the first endpoint and the second endpoint;

monitoring, by the multi-tenant communication platform system, communication messages transmitted as part of the SIP communication session between the first endpoint and the second endpoint;

detecting, based on the communication messages transmitted as part of the SIP communication session, occurrence of a first signaling event in the SIP communication session, the first signaling event being associated with the callback resource identifier that is registered to the first account of the multi-tenant communication platform system; and

in response to detecting the occurrence of the first signaling event, transmitting a message to the external system associated with the first account identified by the callback resource identifier, the message including data associated with the SIP communication session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the callback resource identifier is a callback Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of an application of the external system associated with the first account.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the external system associated with the first account is different than the first endpoint end and the second endpoint.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting occurrence of the first signaling event in the SIP communication session comprises:

comparing at least a portion of the communication messages transmitted as part of the SIP communication session with signaling events registered with the first account, yielding a comparison; and

determining, based on the comparison, that at least a portion of a first message transmitted as part of the SIP communication session matches the first signaling event associated with the callback resource identifier that is registered to the first account.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the signaling event is the first endpoint ending the communication session.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the data associated with the SIP communication session indicates that the first endpoint ended the communication session.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the message transmitted to the external system is a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) message.

8. A system comprising:

one or more computer processors; and

one or more computer-readable mediums storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computer processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising;

registering a callback resource identifier with a first account, the callback resource identifier identifying an external system associated with the first account;

receiving a request to initiate a communication session between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, the request associated with the first account;

establishing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication session between the first endpoint and the second endpoint;

monitoring communication messages transmitted as part of the SIP communication session between the first endpoint and the second endpoint;

detecting, based on the communication messages transmitted as part of the SIP communication session, occurrence of a first signaling event in the SIP communication session, the first signaling event being associated with the callback resource identifier that is registered to the first account; and

in response to detecting the occurrence of the first signaling event, transmitting a message to the external system associated with the first account identified by the callback resource identifier, the message including data associated with the SIP communication session.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the callback resource identifier is a callback Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of an application of the external system associated with the first account.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the external system associated with the first account is different than the first endpoint and the second endpoint.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein detecting occurrence of the first signaling event in the SIP communication session comprises:

comparing at least a portion of the communication messages transmitted as part of the SIP communication session with signaling events registered with the first account, yielding a comparison; and

determining, based on the comparison, that at least a portion of a first message transmitted as part of the SIP communication session matches the first signaling event associated with the callback resource identifier that is registered to the first account.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the signaling event is the first endpoint ending the communication session.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the data associated with the SIP communication session indicates that the first endpoint ended the communication session.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the message transmitted to the external system is a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) message.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more computer processors of one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:

registering a callback resource identifier with a first account, the callback resource identifier identifying an external system associated with the first account;

receiving a request to initiate a communication session between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, the request associated with the first account;

establishing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication session between the first endpoint and the second endpoint;

monitoring communication messages transmitted as part of the SIP communication session between the first endpoint and the second endpoint;

detecting, based on the communication messages transmitted as part of the SIP communication session, occurrence of a first signaling event in the SIP communication session, the first signaling event being associated with the callback resource identifier that is registered to the first account; and

in response to detecting the occurrence of the first signaling event, transmitting a message to the external system associated with the first account identified by the callback resource identifier, the message including data associated with the SIP communication session.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable of claim 15, wherein the callback resource identifier is a callback Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of an application of the external system associated with the first account.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable of claim 15, wherein the external system associated with the first account is different than the first endpoint and the second endpoint.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable of claim 15, wherein detecting occurrence of the first signaling event in the SIP communication session comprises:

comparing at least a portion of the communication messages transmitted as part of the SIP communication session with signaling events registered with the first account, yielding a comparison; and

determining, based on the comparison, that at least a portion of a first message transmitted as part of the SIP communication session matches the first signaling event associated with the callback resource identifier that is registered to the first account.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable of claim 15, wherein the signaling event is the first endpoint ending the communication session and the data associated with the SIP communication session indicates that the first endpoint ended the communication session.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable of claim 15, wherein the message transmitted to the external system is a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) message.