Patent ID: 8131862
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of establishing a communication session between a Signaling System (SSx) device and an application server, the computer-implemented method comprising: configuring at least one specific processor to perform a process of: receiving, at a proxy server, a SIGnal TRANsport (SIGTRAN) message from an SSx SIGTRAN gateway, wherein the SSx SIGTRAN gateway received an SSx message from an SSx device, wherein the SSx message is a request to establish a communication link between the application server and the SSx device, and wherein the SSx SIGTRAN gateway converted the SSx message into the SIGTRAN message; decoding, in the proxy server, the SIGTRAN message from the SIGTRAN gateway into an Extensible Markup Language (XML) formatted packet; and transmitting the XML formatted packet to a converged application in the application server to establish the communication link between the SSx device and the application server.