IDENTIFYING THE SOURCE AND DESTINATION SITES FOR A VOIP CALL WITH DYNAMIC-IP ADDRESS END POINTS
First Claim
1. A voice-over-IP communications network comprising a plurality of session border gateways, each session border gateway connected to a customer edge router of a customer site assigned an IPv6 signaling address, the IPv6 signaling address containing information uniquely and independently identifying the customer site without reference to a lookup table.
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Abstract
In a voice-over-IP communications network, call data records include dynamically assigned IP signaling addresses such as IPv6 signaling addresses used in provisioning communications sessions. Those dynamically assigned IP signaling addresses are computed from customer site identification codes using a reversible algorithm. The algorithm can then be reversed to compute a customer site identification code from an IP signaling address contained in a call data record, allowing the communications network provider to perform quality monitoring and diagnostics based on call data records.
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20 Claims
- 1. A voice-over-IP communications network comprising a plurality of session border gateways, each session border gateway connected to a customer edge router of a customer site assigned an IPv6 signaling address, the IPv6 signaling address containing information uniquely and independently identifying the customer site without reference to a lookup table.
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9. A method for provisioning a link between a session border gateway and a customer gateway router in a voice-over-IP communications network, comprising:
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receiving a unique identifier of a customer site at which the customer gateway router is located; computing an IP signaling address from the unique identifier of the customer site using a reversible algorithm; and setting up the session border gateway and the customer edge router with the IP signaling address. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for generating call data for a call made in a voice-over-IP communications network, comprising:
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determining a unique identifier for a voice-over-IP customer site; computing a signaling address from the unique identifier using a reversible algorithm; provisioning a link between a session border gateway of the voice-over-IP communications network and a customer gateway router at the voice-over-IP customer site using the signaling address; receiving a call data record for a call placed over the link, the call data record including the signaling address; and determining the unique identifier for the voice-over-IP customer site by applying an inverse of the reversible algorithm to the signaling address. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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