DIFFERENT IP INTERFACES IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK SYSTEM

• US 20090238195A1
• Filed: 03/17/2009
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks US LLC (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Pyykkonen, Jarkko
• Application Number:
  US12/405,744
• Publication Number:
  US 20090238195A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/103 in the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1043 Gateway controllers, e.g. media gateway control protocol [MGCP] controllers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities

Abstract

A control apparatus determines a user plane interface type via which a call is to be processed, indicates the user plane interface type in a termination reservation message and transmits the termination reservation message. A gateway apparatus receives the termination reservation message, determines the user plane interface type from the termination reservation message and performs processing in accordance with the user plane interface type.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor configured to determine a user plane interface type via which a call is to be processed;

a transmitter,

wherein the processor is configured to indicate the user plane interface type in a termination reservation message and cause the transmitter to transmit the termination reservation message.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a control plane signaling message associated with the call,

wherein the processor is configured to determine the user plane interface type from the control plane signaling message.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the processer is configured to indicate the user plane interface type in a package with a reference point value corresponding to the user plane interface type and cause the transmitter to transmit the termination reservation message comprising the package.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a call setup request message, wherein

the processor is configured to indicate the apparatus as a sender in a negotiation initiation message in reaction to the call setup request message and cause the transmitter to transmit the negotiation initiation message.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a negotiation initiation message, wherein

the processor is configured to indicate the apparatus as a sender in a negotiation response message in reaction to the negotiation initiation message and cause the transmitter to transmit the negotiation response message.

6. An apparatus, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a termination reservation message; and

a processor configured to determine a user plane interface type from the termination reservation message and perform processing in accordance with the user plane interface type.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to determine the user plane interface type from a reference point value indicated in a package included in the termination reservation message.

8. A method, comprising:

determining a user plane interface type via which a call is to be processed;

indicating the user plane interface type in a termination reservation message; and

transmitting the termination reservation message.

9. The method of claim 8, comprising:

receiving a control plane signaling message associated with the call; and

determining the user plane interface type from the control plane signaling message.

10. The method of claim 8, comprising:

indicating the user plane interface type in a package with a reference point value corresponding to the user plane interface type; and

transmitting the termination reservation message comprising the package.

11. The method of claim 8, comprising:

receiving a call setup request message;

indicating, in a negotiation initiation message to be transmitted in reaction to the call setup request message, an apparatus by which the negotiation initiation message is to be transmitted, as a sender of the negotiation initiation message; and

transmitting the negotiation initiation message.

12. The method of claim 8, comprising:

receiving a negotiation initiation message;

indicating, in a negotiation response message to be transmitted in reaction to the negotiation initiation message, an apparatus by which the negotiation response message is to be transmitted, as a sender of the negotiation response message; and

transmitting the negotiation response message.

13. A method, comprising:

receiving a termination reservation message;

determining a user plane interface type from the termination reservation message; and

performing processing in accordance with the user plane interface type.

14. The method of claim 13, comprising:

determining the user plane interface type from a reference point value indicated in a package included in the termination reservation message.

15. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, comprising software code portions for determining a user plane interface type via which a call is to be processed;

indicating the user plane interface type in a termination reservation message; and

transmitting the termination reservation message.

16. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, comprising software code portions for receiving a termination reservation message;

determining a user plane interface type from the termination reservation message; and

performing processing in accordance with the user plane interface type.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

transmitting means; and

processing means for determining a user plane interface type via which a call is to be processed, indicating the user plane interface type in a termination reservation message and causing the transmitting means to transmit the termination reservation message.

18. An apparatus, comprising:

receiving means for receiving a termination reservation message; and

processing means for determining a user plane interface type from the termination reservation message and performing processing in accordance with the user plane interface type.