Patent ID: 7656866
Filing Date: 2010-02-02
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing services to an IP node comprising: (a) receiving a service request from the IP node in an application server; (b) requesting a media server resource from a media server resource broker in response to the service request; (c) determining with the media service resource broker that a first media server is available to meet the service request, the first media server selected from a set of media servers in response to the request for a media server resource and one or more parameters related to utilization of the media servers in the set of media servers, the determining including determining the first media server to provide the requested media server resource based on a number of available ports suitable to provide the requested media server resource in each of the media servers in the set of media servers; (d) connecting the first media server with the IP node through the media server resource broker, the connecting providing an IP address and port number for use in establishing a call between the first media server and the IP node; (e) establishing a call between the IP node and the first media server; and (f) providing instructions for managing the call to the first media server from the application server, wherein one of the one or more parameters is a current amount of the used and unused capacity of the first media server.