Mechanism for Implementation of System Signaling 7 (SS7) Layers as Microcontainer Beans in a Media Gateway

• US 20120044945A1
• Filed: 08/17/2010
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Bhayani, Amit
• Granted Patent: US 8,446,912 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0025 Provisions for signalling

Abstract

A mechanism for implementation of system signaling 7 (SS7) layers as microcontainer beans in a media gateway is disclosed. A method of the invention includes implementing one or more System Signaling No. 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part (MTP) layers as plain old JAVA objects (POJOs), associating each of the one or more SS7 MTP layers with JBoss Microcontainer Beans, and installing the one or more SS7 MTP layer Microcontainer Beans in a media gateway.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

implementing, by a communications platform, one or more System Signaling No. 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part (MTP) layers as plain old JAVA objects (POJOs);

associating, by the communications platform, each of the one or more SS7 MTP layers with JBoss Microcontainer Beans; and

installing, by the communications platform, the one or more SS7 MTP layer Microcontainer Beans in a media gateway.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more SS7 MTP layers are at least one of MTP2 and MTP3.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the MTP2 and MTP3 layers are specifically adapted for SS7 signaling including the MTP2 layer providing functionality including delimitation of signal units, alignment of signal units, signaling link error detection, signaling link error correction by retransmission, signaling link initial alignment, error monitoring and reporting, and link flow control, and the MTP3 layer providing functionality including signaling message handling and signaling network management.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more SS7 MTP layer Microcontainer Beans are installed in the media gateway over a JBoss Microcontainer implementation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein associating each of the one or more SS7 MTP layers with JBoss Microcontainer Bean provides integration capabilities with one or more physical and virtual endpoints in the media gateway.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more physical and virtual endpoints include at least one of a T1 line endpoint, an E1 line endpoint, a fax line endpoint, a Time Division Multiplexing line endpoint, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) endpoint, an Announcement endpoint, a Conference endpoint, an Echo endpoint, and a Packet Relay endpoint.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more endpoints in the media server communicate with one another via one or more local in-VM pass-by reference semantics.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein each JBoss Microcontainer Bean media gateway includes a timer that generates a sequence of time marks, wherein at each time mark the Microcontainer Bean provides a request to the media gateway to generate a chunk of real-time media that represents a time interval [T*n−

T* (n+1)] seconds, where T is period of packetization and n is a number of timer marks in T.

9. A system, comprising:

a processor;

a memory communicably coupled to the processor;

a System Signaling 7 (SS7) card communicably coupled to the processor and the memory;

a media gateway executed by the processor from the memory and utilizing the SS7 card; and

a JBoss Microcontainer executed by the processor from the memory and communicably coupled to the media gateway, the JBoss Microcontainer configured to;

implement one or more System Signaling No. 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part (MTP) layers as plain old JAVA objects (POJOs);

associate each of the one or more SS7 MTP layers with JBoss Microcontainer Beans; and

install the one or more SS7 MTP layer Microcontainer Beans in the media gateway over the JBoss Microcontainer.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more SS7 MTP layers are at least one of MTP2 and MTP3.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the MTP2 and MTP3 layers are specifically adapted for SS7 signaling including the MTP2 layer providing functionality including delimitation of signal units, alignment of signal units, signaling link error detection, signaling link error correction by retransmission, signaling link initial alignment, error monitoring and reporting, and link flow control, and the MTP3 layer providing functionality including signaling message handling and signaling network management.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the JBoss Microcontainer implementation reproduces a JBoss JAVA Management Extensions (JMX) Microkernel that is targeted at POJO environments.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein associating each of the one or more SS7 MTP layers with JBoss Microcontainer Bean provides integration capabilities with one or more physical and virtual endpoints in the media gateway.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more physical and virtual endpoints include at least one of a T1 line endpoint, an E1 line endpoint, a fax line endpoint, a Time Division Multiplexing line endpoint, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) endpoint, an Announcement endpoint, a Conference endpoint, an Echo endpoint, and a Packet Relay endpoint.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein each JBoss Microcontainer Bean media gateway includes a timer that generates a sequence of time marks, wherein at each time mark the Microcontainer Bean provides a request to the media gateway to generate a chunk of real-time media that represents a time interval [T*n−

T* (n+1)] seconds, where T is period of packetization and n is a number of timer marks in T.

16. An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable storage medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

implementing one or more System Signaling No. 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part (MTP) layers as plain old JAVA objects (POJOs);

associating each of the one or more SS7 MTP layers with JBoss Microcontainer Beans; and

installing the one or more SS7 MTP layer Microcontainer Beans in a media gateway over a JBoss Microcontainer implementation.

17. The article of manufacture of claim 16, wherein the one or more SS7 MTP layers are at least one of MTP2 and MTP3.

18. The article of manufacture of claim 16, wherein the JBoss Microcontainer implementation reproduces a JBoss JAVA Management Extensions (JMX) Microkernel that is targeted at POJO environments.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 16, wherein associating each of the one or more SS7 MTP layers with JBoss Microcontainer Bean provides integration capabilities with one or more physical and virtual endpoints in the media gateway.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 16, wherein each JBoss Microcontainer Bean media gateway includes a timer that generates a sequence of time marks, wherein at each time mark the Microcontainer Bean provides a request to the media gateway to generate a chunk of real-time media that represents a time interval [T*n−

T* (n+1)] seconds, where T is period of packetization and n is a number of timer marks in T.