Patent ID: 8725896
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating signaling information in a telecommunications signaling network, comprising: receiving, in a processor, a message encoding signaling information from a source component; decoding the received message into an internal representation that stores the signaling information included in the received first message in two or more structured information fields; performing application level routing operations using contextual information derived from information included in a structured information field of the internal representation to identify a primary destination component to which the received message is to be sent; determining whether the received message is to be fork-routed in which the received message is also sent to at least one secondary destination component; using information included in at least one other structured information field to identify secondary destination components to which fork-routed messages are to be sent; replicating the received message into multiple fork-routed messages in response to determining that the received message is to be fork-routed; sending the received message to the identified primary destination component; sending each of the multiple fork-routed messages to at least one of the identified secondary destination components; receiving a response message from the identified primary destination component; replicating the received response message into multiple fork-routed response messages; sending each of the multiple fork-routed response messages to at least one of the identified secondary destination components; and sending the received response message to the source component.