Media Gateway Route Context Segmentation for Efficient Record Management

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Current Media Gateway (MG) systems face inefficiencies in managing large routing tables, making it inconvenient to operate specific route records due to the need to manipulate entire routing tables for each operation.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a route management method where a Media Gateway detects new routes, sends events to a Media Gateway Controller, and creates route contexts to store individual route records, allowing for separate and efficient management of each route record.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the routing table is stored through an H.248 property as a sub-list of string, then the routing table can be maintained in the MG, but every operation affects the entire routing table making it inconvenient to operate specific route records

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveroute record operationVSAvoidrouting table structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the routing table from a single monolithic H.248 property into multiple independent route contexts, where each context represents a specific route record. This allows operations to be performed on individual route records rather than the entire routing table, significantly improving operational convenience and precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If the routing table includes a large number of route records (e.g., 100,000 records), then comprehensive routing coverage is achieved, but operation efficiency decreases due to the need to operate on the entire table

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveroute operation efficiencyVSAvoidtime for route operations

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

By dividing the large routing table into segmented route contexts, the patent enables targeted operations on specific routes without processing the entire 100,000-record table. This segmentation dramatically reduces the time and resources required for route operations, directly improving productivity while minimizing time loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Adaptability or versatility

If the MG implements the routing function in IPR mode, then the source and destination addresses do not need to be modified, but the complexity of managing the routing table increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improverouting mode flexibilityVSAvoidrouting table management

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation to the routing table management in IPR mode by creating independent route contexts. This allows the MG to maintain the flexible IPR routing functionality while simplifying table management through modular, context-based organization of route records, reducing the complexity burden.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP2945315B1Method for managing routes in a media gateway, apparatus and system

Publication Date: 2017.05.10 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

Figure 1~2
Figure 3
Figure 4

AI summary

The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for managing routes, enables the MG to implement routing functions in the network communications field, and facilitates the operations on the routing table in the MG. A route context stores route records, and the MG searches for a route by searching for the corresponding route context only, thus facilitating the route management. The embodiments of the present invention are primarily applied to the MG and the MGC, especially to the MG that implements the routing functions.