Patent ID: 7283545

Claim:
A method for associating one or more packet based network ephemeral terminations to one or more local components in one or more Media Gateways with a termination identifier, wherein the termination identifier identifies one or more local components and one or more Media Gateway PMC cards and one or more Media Gateway Intelligent Carrier Cards (ICCs) and one or more Radio Network Controllers, the method comprising: identifying the one or more Radio Network Controller components with an RNC indicator in a first level; identifying the one or more ICC components with an ICC indicator in a second level; identifying the one or more PMC components with a PMC indicator in a third level; and identifying the one or more local components with a local component indicator in a fourth level; wherein the first level, second level, third level and fourth levels form different portions of the termination identifier and the termination identifier is structured so that the one or more local components identified in the fourth level are associated with the one or more PMCs identified in the third level, and the one or more PMCs identified in the third level are associated with the one or more ICCs identified in the second level and the one or more ICCs identified in the second level are associated with the one or more RNCs identified in the first level.