Patent ID: 7433368
Filing Date: 2008-10-07
Classification: H04Q

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a signaling entity; a peer signaling entity configured to transmit data in a communication network through a transport layer based on the TCP transmission control protocol, and a signaling transport converter configured to provide a signaling transport service for a connection between the signaling entity and the transport layer, wherein the signaling transport converter is based on a generic signaling transport service according to ITU-T Q.2150.0 specification, wherein the signaling transport converter comprises an interface to the signaling entity and an interface to the transport layer, and wherein the signaling transport converter is configured to process data to be exchanged between the signaling entity and the transport layer for a transparent transfer of the data to the peer signaling entity by the transport layer, wherein the signaling transport converter further comprises a message wrapper unit which is configured to provide a transaction-oriented data transport service used for processing the data to be exchanged, and wherein the message wrapper unit is configured to encapsulate the data to be exchanged in the direction from the signaling entity to the transport layer, and to decapsulate the data to be exchanged in the direction from the transport layer to the signaling entity, wherein the message wrapper unit is further configured to prepend a message header before a message comprising at least a part of the data to be exchanged for encapsulating the data to be exchanged, wherein the message header comprises at least a record marking for delineating the message with regard to a message stream based on the protocol used by the transport layer.