System and method for processing packet domain signal

• US 7,804,820 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2007
• Issued: 09/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Dongming, Shi, Youzhu
• Primary Examiner(s): Haliyur; Venkatesh
• Application Number:
  US11/682,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20070211695A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,302 Days
• Field of Search: 370328-503, 709/227, 37922108-22114
• US Class Current: 370/353
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1043 Gateway controllers, e.g. media gateway control protocol [MGCP] controllers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/123 where the packet-switched network is an Internet Protocol Multimedia System-type network

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and a method for processing a packet domain service signal, which enable a terminal that does not support an access control protocol of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to access the IMS and acquire the services in the IMS. An AGCF is added for shielding the differences of the users on the basis of the IMS defined in the 3GPP R5/R6 standard, specifically, a PSTN/ISDN user accesses an AGF first, accesses the IMS through an agent function of the AGCF, and the AGCF also manages and controls the AGF. Control of the PSTN/ISDN services may be implemented in the AGCF, or in an AS added to the IMS, or the control of basic services and supplementary services may be implemented in the AGCF while the control of value-added services may be implemented in the AS.

Claims

1. A method for processing a packet domain service signal, when a user makes an incoming call, the method comprising:

upon receiving a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request message, triggering, by a Call Session Control Function (CSCF) in a home domain of a called user, a service according to user subscription information, and sending a first message to a first application server;

upon receiving the first message, implementing, by the first application server, service control of a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)/Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), and sending a second message to the CSCF;

upon receiving the second message, implementing, by the CSCF, connection control and routing, and sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) request message to an access gateway control function;

upon receiving the SIP request message, locating, by the access gateway control function, an access gateway function that a called user accesses and a user port according to a called user identity, converting the SIP request message to a third message, and notifying the access gateway function to send an incoming call signal to a user equipment processing a service signal of the PSTN/ISDN;

wherein the service control of the PSTN/ISDN implemented by the first application server comprises control of an extended value-added service;

wherein, upon receiving the SIP request message, the access gateway control function determines whether a basic service and a supplementary service of the PSTN/ISDN are triggered;

wherein, if the basic service and the supplementary service are triggered, the access gateway control function controls the basic service and the supplementary service that are triggered, and determines whether to carry out the session control again for the incoming call;

wherein, if determining to carry out the session control again for the incoming call, the access gateway control function sends an SIP request message to the CSCF, and the CSCF continues to implement the session control again;

wherein, if determining not to carry out the session control again for the incoming call, the incoming call is terminated; and

wherein, if the basic service and the supplementary service are not triggered, the access gateway control function locates an access gateway function that a called user accesses and a user port according to the called user identity, converts the SIP request message to the third message, and notifies the access gateway function to send an incoming call signal to a user equipment processing the service signal of the PSTN/ISDN.