Patent ID: 7424025
Filing Date: 2008-09-09
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for dynamic media gateway resource management, the method comprising: at a media gateway for switching voice packets between a plurality of input ports and output ports: (a) pooling voice server resources provided by a plurality of voice chips in the media gateway, wherein pooling voice server resources includes combining M voice server cards into the shared pool of voice server resources, M being an integer, wherein each voice server card includes N (b) for each new call/session originating from the packet network, dynamically allocating a voice chip from the pooled voice server resources; (c) dynamically assigning a logical resource identifier to each session; (d) receiving a plurality of voice packets relating to a call/session from a plurality of different external networks and sending a plurality of voice packets relating to the call/session to the external networks; and (e) processing voice packets associated with each session using the voice chip dynamically assigned to the session.