Mechanism for implementation of system signaling 7 (SS7) layers as microcontainer beans in a media gateway

• US 8,446,912 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2010
• Issued: 05/21/2013
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Ton, Dang
• Assistant Examiner(s): AMBAYE, MEWALE A
• Application Number:
  US12/858,095
• Publication Number:
  US 20120044945A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,008 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226, 709/203, 370/401
• 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 processing device of 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 processing device, each of the one or more SS7 MTP layers with Jboss™

Microcontainer Beans (beans);

installing, by the processing device, the beans associated with the one or more SS7 MTP layer in a media gateway of the communications platform, wherein each bean installed in the media gateway comprises a timer that generates a sequence of time marks;

sending, by each bean at each of the time marks, a request to the media gateway to generate a portion of media that represents a time interval; and

generating, by the media gateway, the portion of the media in response to the request.

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

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the MTP2 and MTP3 layers are specifically adapted for SS7 signaling comprising the MTP2 layer providing functionality comprising 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 wherein the MTP3 layer providing functionality comprising 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 comprise 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, or 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-virtual machine (VM) pass-by reference semantics.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the time interval comprises [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 processing device;

a memory communicably coupled to the processing device;

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

a media gateway executable from the memory by the processing device, the media gateway configured to utilize the SS7 card; and

a JBoss™

Microcontainer executable from the memory by the processing device, 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 (beans);

install the beans associated with the one or more SS7 MTP layer in a media gateway of the communications platform over the JBoss™

Microcontainer;

wherein each bean installed in the media gateway comprises a timer that generates a sequence of time marks, wherein at each time mark the bean sends a request to the media gateway to generate a portion of media that represents a time interval; and

the media gateway to generate the portion of the media in response to the request.

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

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the MTP2 and MTP3 layers are specifically adapted for SS7 signaling comprising the MTP2 layer providing functionality comprising 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 wherein the MTP3 layer providing functionality comprising 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 comprise 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, or a Packet Relay endpoint.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the time interval comprises [T*n−

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

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

implementing, by a processing device of the machine in 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 processing device, each of the one or more SS7 MTP layers with JBoss Microcontainer Beans (beans);

installing, by the processing device, the beans associated with the one or more SS7 MTP layer in a media gateway of the communications platform, wherein each bean installed in the media gateway comprises a timer that generates a sequence of time marks;

sending, by each bean at each of the time marks, a request to the media gateway to generate a portion of media that represents a time interval; and

generating, by the media gateway, the portion of the media in response to the request.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the one or more SS7 MTP layers are at least one of MTP2 or MTP3.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the JBoss Microcontainer implementation reproduces a JBoss™

JAVA Management Extensions (JMX) Microkernel that is targeted at POJO environments.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium 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 non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the time interval comprises [T*n−

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