Patent ID: 9225752
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing a service offered to a user of a terminal in a network, the network having a service platform and equipment including session border controllers that communicate with the service platform, a session border controller routing messages received from the terminal to the service platform, said method comprising the steps of: deciding at the session border controller that the service platform is not accessible on the basis of a platform accessibility check; and operating in an autonomous operating mode in which the session border controller selects an equipment of the network separate from the service platform and routes at least one message received from the terminal and intended for a destination terminal, to said selected network equipment, in which: wherein: each session border controller implements the platform accessibility check and said operating step includes the steps of: each session border controller maintains a local database indicating terminals that said session border controller manages, and said operating step further includes the steps of: