METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOVERING SIP TRANSACTION

• US 20110029812A1
• Filed: 07/30/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Lu, Wei, Yang, Bo
• Granted Patent: US 8,140,895 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/18
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1474 in transactions G06F16/20 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1046 Call controllers; Call servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

A method and system for recovering a SIP transaction. The method including monitoring an event related to transaction change; recording information related to the event; and regenerating a transaction by use of the recorded information upon failover. A system is also provided to carry out the steps of the method. Through the present invention, a transaction may be regenerated upon occurrence of failure during the transaction period, thereby enabling transaction-level failover and noticeably reducing the information load needed to recorded compared with the prior art. The present invention not only improves reliability of a SIP-based service but also requires less overhead for transaction recovery.

Claims

1. A method for recovering a session initiation protocol transaction, comprising:

monitoring an event related to transaction change;

recording information related to the event; and

regenerating a transaction by use of the recorded information upon failover.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the event related to transaction change comprises a transaction creating event.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the event related to transaction change further comprises a transaction state change event.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the event related to transaction change further comprises a response event.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the information related to the event comprises a text message of a request and a current state of a transaction; and

the step of regenerating the transaction further comprises (i) recovering a request object of the transaction from the text message of the request and (ii) recovering a state machine of the transaction from the current state of the transaction.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein:

the information related to the invent further comprises a text message of a response; and

the step of regenerating the transaction further comprises recovering a response object of the transaction from a text message of a latest response.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein:

the information related to the invent further comprises transaction state change time; and

the step of regenerating the transaction further comprises (i) determining an already set timer of the transaction based on current state of the transaction, and (ii) recovering an object corresponding to the timer based on the transaction state change time and the current time.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transaction is regenerated in response to a failover target server not finding a transaction for processing its received session initiation protocol message.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

deleting information irrelevant to the transaction being monitored.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

deleting old information from the information related to the event.

11. A system for recovering a session initiation protocol transaction, comprising:

an event monitoring means for monitoring an event related to transaction change;

an information recording means for recording information related to the event; and

a regenerating means for regenerating a transaction by use of the recorded information upon failover.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the event related to transaction change comprises a transaction creating event.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the event related to transaction change further comprises a transaction state change event.

14. The system according to claim 12, wherein the event related to transaction change further comprises a response event.

15. The system according to claim 11, wherein:

the information related to the event comprises a text message of a request and a current state of a transaction; and

the regenerating means is further configured to (i) recover a request object of the transaction from the text message of the request and (ii) recover a state machine of the transaction from the current state of the transaction.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein:

the information related to the invent further comprises a text message of a response; and

the regenerating means is further configured to recover a response object of the transaction from a text message of a latest response.

17. The system according to claim 15, wherein:

the information related to the invent further comprises transaction state change time; and

the regenerating means is further configured to (i) determine already set timers of the transaction based on current state of the transaction, and (ii) recover an object corresponding to the timer based on the transaction state change time and the current time.

18. The system according to claim 11, wherein the regenerating means is configured to regenerate the transaction in response to a failover target server not finding a transaction for processing its received session initiation protocol message.

19. The system according to claim 11, further comprising:

irrelevant information deletion means for deleting information irrelevant to the transaction being monitored.

20. The system according to claim 11, further comprising:

old information deletion means for deleting old information from the information related to the event.