Providing interaction Management for Communication networks
First Claim
1. A gateway in a communication network comprising:
- a service control interaction manager (SCIM) residing in the gateway which provides management of services and management of interactions in the communication network;
a call session control function (CSCF) in communication with the SCIM and residing in the gateway, which handles session initiation protocol sessions and interworking; and
a computer readable medium storing filter criteria and triggers which are used to determine service changes.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for providing interaction management to network devices in a communication network are described. A gateway may be used to implement the interaction capabilities on packet flows for IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and multimedia domain (MMD) architectures. Interaction managers and proxy agents can be provided by the gateway, such as a service control interaction manager (SCIM). The SCIM can be a layer and manage interactions between network devices such as mobile nodes and application servers and can provide abstraction of network devices. This can allow the gateway to provide interworking between network devices and handle mobile nodes with different capabilities.
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8 Claims
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1. A gateway in a communication network comprising:
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a service control interaction manager (SCIM) residing in the gateway which provides management of services and management of interactions in the communication network; a call session control function (CSCF) in communication with the SCIM and residing in the gateway, which handles session initiation protocol sessions and interworking; and a computer readable medium storing filter criteria and triggers which are used to determine service changes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An interaction management method comprising:
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receiving a message at a gateway in a communication network; analyzing the message at the gateway in a service control interaction manager (SCIM); determining if the request matches filter criteria to change a service provided to a mobile node; communicating instructions from the SCIM to a call session control function (CSCF); determining processing to perform at the gateway including interworking at the CSCF on the message, wherein the interworking is between an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network and a non-compliant network device; and receiving at the gateway a packet flow from a network device and processing the packet flow to manage service level interaction between the network device and the communication network.
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5. The method of claim 5, further comprising:
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selecting an application server using a method of load balancing at the gateway; and managing interaction with the selected application servers. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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