Method, apparatus, and system for disaster recovery of IMS

• US 9,661,028 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2012
• Issued: 05/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• 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: Liang, Feng, Shi, Shufeng, Shen, Linfei
• Primary Examiner(s): Phung, Luat
• Application Number:
  US13/350,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20120113802A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,957 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/30 Network data restoration; Network data reliability; Network data fault tolerance

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system for disaster recovery of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) are provided. The method includes: triggering a redundant Call Session Control Function (CSCF); obtaining, by the redundant CSCF, user backup data of registered IMS Private User Identities (IMPIs) that are associated with IMPUs and user service configuration data of IMS Public User Identities (IMPUs) in an IMS subscription from a network storage entity of a user; and recovering, by the redundant CSCF, a corresponding service according to the obtained user backup data of the registered IMPIs and user service configuration data of the IMPUs in the IMS subscription. With the present invention, the one-IMPU multi-IMPI, one-IMPI multi-IMPU, or multi-IMPI multi-IMPU service can be recovered, and this enables the user to have better service continuity experiences.

Claims

1. A method for disaster recovery, comprising:

obtaining, by a Call Session Control Function (CSCF), information of registered IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Private User Identities (IMPIs) that are associated with an IMS Public User Identity (IMPU) in an IMS subscription transmitted by a network storage entity;

determining, by the CSCF, at least one DM that was received from the network storage entity is not registered in the CSCF, and based upon the determining, requesting user service configuration data of the IMPU and user backup data of IMPIs associated with the IMPU from the network storage entity; and

receiving, by the CSCF, the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU in a response returned by the network storage entity, wherein the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU is used by the CSCF for recovering a corresponding service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining, by the CSCF, the information of the registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU in the IMS subscription comprises:

obtaining, by the CSCF, the information of the registered IMPIs carried in a new parameter of an extended Server Assignment Answer (SAA) message transmitted by the network storage entity.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the extended SAA message supports multiple user-data attribute-value-pairs (AVPs), wherein the AVPs comprise user-name and user-backup-data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the CSCF is triggered in a service registration process.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the CSCF comprises a newly selected CSCF that serves the user when an original CSCF that serves the user fails or a restarted CSCF that serves the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the user backup data comprises:

an address of a Proxy CSCF (P-CSCF), a contact address of a UE, and registration state subscription data of the UE during UE registration, wherein the method further comprises;

sending, by the CSCF, a NOTIFY message to all or certain related registered UEs according to the contact address and the registration state subscription data of the UE to notify the UE to register with a network.

7. A Call Session Control Function, (CSCF), comprising:

at least one processor;

a non-transitory memory in communication with the at least one processor, the memory including instructions executable by the at least one processor for performing the steps of;

obtaining information of registered IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Private User Identities (IMPIs) that are associated with an IMS Public User Identity (IMPU) in an IMS subscription transmitted by a network storage entity;

determining at least one IMPI that was received from the network storage entity is not registered in the CSCF, and based on the determining, requesting the network storage entity for user service configuration data of the IMPU and user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU from the network storage entity; and

receiving the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU in a response returned by the network storage entity, wherein the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU is used by the CSCF for recovering a corresponding service.

8. The CSCF of claim 7, wherein the step of obtaining the information of the registered IMPIs that are associated with the IMPU in the IMS subscription comprises:

obtaining the information of the registered IMPIs carried in a new parameter of an extended Server Assignment Answer (SAA) message transmitted by the network storage entity.

9. A network storage entity, comprising:

at least one processor;

a non-transitory memory in communication with the at least one processor, the memory including instructions executable by the at least one processor for performing the steps of;

sending information of registered EP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Private User Identities (IMPIs) that are associated with IMS Public User Identity (IMPU) in an IMS subscription to a Call Session Control Function (CSCF);

receiving a request for user service configuration data of the IMPU and user backup data of the IMPU from the CSCF; and

sending the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU to the CSCF.

10. The network storage entity of claim 9, comprising instructions executable by the at least one processor for performing the step of:

encapsulating the user service configuration data of the IMPU and the user backup data of the IMPIs associated with the IMPU in a Server Assignment Answer (SAA) message.