Interworking network element, interworking system between the CSI terminal and the IMS terminal and the method thereof

• US 8,213,419 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2008
• Issued: 07/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: INVT SPE LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Hengliang, Zhu, Dongming
• Primary Examiner(s): Sefcheck, Gregory
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, MINH TRANG T
• Application Number:
  US12/170,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20080298353A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,455 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/356
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1095 Inter-network session transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/10 adapted for application session management, e.g. SIP [Session Initiation Protocol] connection management H04W76/00; arrangements for session management H04L67/14

Abstract

An interworking network element, an interworking system between the CSI terminal and the IMS terminal and the method thereof, which relate to the communication technology, enable the CSI terminal and the IMS terminal to interwork and the effective bearing link to be established according to the actual requirement. The interworking network element CSI-IW is added at the network of the called side between the CSI terminal and the IMS terminal. The network element receives the session request from the IMS terminal, determines whether there is need to separate the IMS session including the real time media request and non-real time media request into the two IMS sessions including the real time media request and non-real time media request respectively, and chooses the CS domain or the IMS domain to end the call according to the attribute information of the session, the ability for accessing the network, the ability of the terminal etc, so that the real time session can be borne by the CS domain as possible as it can.

Claims

1. A method for interworking between a Combining CS and IMS services (CSI), capable terminal and an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), terminal, comprising:

receiving an IMS session request initiated by the IMS terminal to the CSI capable terminal;

determining whether an IMS session represented by the IMS session request needs to be split, and splitting the IMS session when needed; and

selecting a domain for bearing each of the split IMS sessions according to information on domain selection, and terminating the split IMS sessions in at least one of a Circuit Switched (CS) domain and an IMS,

wherein the determining of whether the IMS session and the IMS session represented by the IMS session request is needed to be split or not comprises;

if the IMS session contains a real-time media component and a non-real-time media component, determining whether the IMS session needs to be split or not according to or any combination of capability information of an access network in which the CSI capable terminal lies, registration status information of the CSI capable terminal in the CS domain, and subscription information of a subscriber of the CSI capable terminal.

2. An interworking network element, comprising:

a message processing module adapted to receive and send a message;

a session processing module adapted to perform service logic control and to accomplish establishment of a session between a Combining CS and IMS services (CSI), capable terminal and an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), terminal when the message processing module receives an IMS session request initiated by the IMS terminal to the CSI capable terminal; and

an information processing module adapted to obtain information on domain selection, wherein the session processing module comprises;

a session splitting module adapted to determine whether an IMS session represented by the IMS session request needs to be split, and to split the IMS session when needed;

a selecting module adapted to select a domain for bearing each of the split IMS sessions according to information on domain selection;

a session establishing module adapted to establish the split IMS sessions in at least one of a Circuit Switched (CS) domain and an IMS, and

a split-related information obtaining module adapted to obtain and send information for determining whether the IMS session is split or not to the session splitting module, and the information for determination comprises one or any combination of capability information of an access network in which the CSI capable terminal lies, registration status information of the CSI capable terminal in the CS domain, and subscription information of a subscriber of the CSI capable terminal.

3. A method for interworking between a CSI capable terminal and an IMS terminal, comprising:

receiving an IMS session request initiated by the IMS terminal to the CSI capable terminal;

determining whether an IMS session represented by the IMS session request needs to be split, and splitting the IMS session when needed; and

selecting a domain for bearing each of the split IMS sessions according to information on domain selection, and terminating the split IMS sessions in at least one of a CS domain and an IMS,

wherein the information on domain selection comprises one or any combination of capability information of the CSI capable terminal, capability information of a packet access network in which the CSI capable terminal lies, correlation information between a circuit switch domain number and a multimedia subsystem domain number of the CSI capable terminal, registration status information of a subscriber of the CSI capable terminal in the CS domain, attribute information of an ongoing session, and subscription information of the subscriber of the CSI capable terminal.