Patent ID: 7539182

Claim:
In a telecommunications network, a method of monitoring information associated with a monitored termination of a Context, the Context comprising two or more terminations in a Media Gateway (MG), the method comprising: specifying, at a media gateway controller a modified Topology Descriptor of the Context so as to define a relationship between a monitoring termination and the monitored termination, the modified Topology Descriptor having an additional parameter to define which information is to be conveyed from the monitored termination to the monitoring termination, the additional parameter indicating whether only information arriving at the monitored termination from outside of the Context, or only information arriving at the monitored termination from inside of the Context, or both is to be sent to the monitoring termination; and the media gateway controller providing said modified Topology Descriptor to said Media Gateway, associated with said monitored termination, wherein the modified Topology Descriptor is used to create a new Context at the Media Gateway that causes the arriving information to be sent from the monitored termination to the monitoring termination.