System and method for executing originating services in a terminating network for IMS and non-IMS applications

• US 10,674,419 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2015
• Issued: 06/02/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tango Networks Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Tango Networks Incorporated
• Inventors: Silver, Andrew, Lewis, Lathan, Landgren, Patricia
• Primary Examiner(s): Phung, Luat
• Application Number:
  US14/970,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20160112462A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,631 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] H04L51/04; selective video distribution H04N21/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
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• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/57 for integrated multimedia messaging subsystem [IMS]
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Abstract

A mobile application gateway for connecting devices on a cellular network with individual networks, such as enterprise voice and data networks and/or residential networks. The effects of the present invention are far reaching in terms of transferring effective call control from the cellular network into the control of the individual network such as the enterprise, and enabling new business models for the purchase of cellular service from a public cellular carrier by an enterprise. The invention may consist of a primarily of core network and services components based on the IMS network architecture, and is backward compatible to support legacy systems in place in current telecom and data networks.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a carrier gateway server acting as an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server communicatively coupled with an enterprise gateway server acting as

a proxy, interrogation and serving call session control function used to route a session;

wherein the carrier gateway server receives a terminating session request to route the session to a terminating subscriber;

wherein the carrier gateway server is configured to route the terminating session request to an enterprise gateway server in an enterprise network;

wherein the enterprise gateway server is configured to

convert the terminating session request to an originating session request prior to communicating with a private branch exchange (PBX) of the enterprise network,

forward the originating session request to the PBX;

wherein the PBX is configured to

invoke a call policy originating service which restricts where the terminating session request is permitted to be sent prior to the session being routed,

responsive to the originating service having been performed, invoke a call policy terminating service as a destination service specific to the terminating subscriber;

responsive to execution of the originating service and the terminating service, identify a destination associated with the terminating subscriber; and

route the session to the destination.

2. The system as specified in claim 1 wherein the enterprise gateway server invokes the terminating service in an IMS application.

3. The system as specified in claim 1 wherein an application invokes the terminating service, and wherein the application is a non-IMS application.

4. The system as specified in claim 1, wherein the carrier gateway server is configured to prepare the enterprise gateway server for a communication.

5. The system as specified in claim 1 wherein the enterprise gateway server is configured to enable an application to perform the terminating service once the originating service has been executed, and wherein the application is a non-IMS application.

6. The system as specified in claim 1, wherein the terminating service is associated with a terminating network application.

7. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a carrier gateway server acting as an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server, a terminating session request for a terminating subscriber;

routing the terminating session request, by the carrier gateway server to an enterprise gateway server in an enterprise network, wherein the enterprise gateway server is acting as a proxy, interrogation and serving call session control function used to route a session;

converting, by the enterprise gateway server, the terminating session request to an originating session request prior to communicating with a private branch exchange (PBX) of the enterprise network, and forwarding the originating session request to the PBX;

invoking, via the PBX, a call policy originating service which restricts where the terminating session request is permitted to be sent prior to the session being routed;

responsive to the originating service having been performed, invoking, via the PBX, a call policy terminating service as a destination service specific to the terminating subscriber;

responsive to execution of the originating service and the terminating service, identifying, via the PBX, a destination associated with the terminating subscriber; and

routing the session to the destination.

8. The method as specified in claim 7, comprising invoking, by the enterprise gateway server, the terminating service in an IMS application.

9. The method as specified in claim 7, comprising invoking the terminating service in a non-IMS application.

10. The method as specified in claim 7, comprising preparing, by the carrier gateway server, the enterprise gateway server for a communication.

11. The method as specified in claim 7, comprising enabling, by the enterprise gateway server, an application to perform the terminating service once the originating service has been executed, and wherein the application is a non-IMS application.

12. The method as specified in claim 7, comprising associating the terminating service and a terminating network application.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when read by a processor, cause the processor to perform:

receiving, by a carrier gateway server acting as an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server, a terminating session request for a terminating subscriber;

routing the terminating session request, by the carrier gateway server to an enterprise gateway server in an enterprise network, wherein the enterprise gateway server is acting as a proxy, interrogation and serving call session control function used to route a session;

converting, by the enterprise gateway server, the terminating session request to an originating session request prior to communicating with a private branch exchange (PBX) of the enterprise network, and forwarding the originating session request to the PBX;

invoking, via the PBX, a call policy originating service which restricts where the terminating session request is permitted to be sent prior to the session being routed;

responsive to the originating service having been performed, invoking, via the PBX, a call policy terminating service as a destination service specific to the terminating subscriber;

responsive to execution of the originating service and the terminating service, identifying, via the PBX, a destination associated with the terminating subscriber; and

routing the session to the destination.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 13 comprising instructions that, when read by the processor, cause the processor to perform invoking, by the enterprise gateway server, the terminating service in an IMS application.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 13 comprising instructions that, when read by the processor, cause the processor to perform invoking the terminating service in a non-IMS application.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 13 comprising instructions that, when read by the processor, cause the processor to perform preparing, by the carrier gateway server, the enterprise gateway server for a communication.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 13 comprising instructions that, when read by the processor, cause the processor to perform enabling, by the enterprise gateway server, a non-IMS application to perform the terminating service once the originating service has been executed.