Patent ID: 7069331
Filing Date: 2006-06-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for managing VoIP trunk groups in a plurality of physical gateways, the system comprising: a resource manager, the resource manager including a configuration table for grouping a plurality of physical gateways into a logical gateway to act as a VoIP trunk group, the configuration table including at least one group of physical gateway addresses, each of the at least one group of physical gateway addresses having a single and unique logical identifier representative of a VoIP trunk group, the resource manager being coupled to a plurality of physical gateways; wherein the resource manager translates physical gateway register request messages received from the physical gateways into logical gateway register request messages by (i) receiving a physical gateway register request message from a given one of the plurality of physical gateways, the received physical gateway register request message including a physical gateway address of the given one of the plurality of physical gateways, (ii) responsively determining the logical identifier corresponding to the physical gateway address of the given one of the plurality of physical gateways, and (iii) sending the logical gateway register request message including the logical identifier to a proxy, wherein the logical gateway register request message indicates to the proxy the availability of the logical gateway to process VoIP traffic.