Patent ID: 7756139

Claim:
An apparatus for converting a megaco protocol to a different protocol, comprising: a plurality of first protocol execution means for receiving a plurality of different protocol packets, executing operations according to the received protocols, analyzing the received protocols, and generating protocol execution parameters; a megaco protocol execution means for receiving a megaco protocol packet, executing operations according to the received protocol, analyzing the received protocol, and generating protocol execution parameters; databases for storing connection information between objects and protocol conversion functions; and a protocol conversion means for interworking between the first protocol execution means and the megaco protocol execution means, verifying an object condition mode of an object which transmitted the protocol packets as master or slave; searching for destination objects and the protocol conversion functions in the database, and converting the generated protocol execution parameters to protocol types of the destination objects, based on the object condition mode, wherein the databases include: an object information database containing object information database entries, each entry associating an object connection identifier to a protocol type of a destination object, the object information database searched by the protocol conversion means when the object condition mode is verified to be slave to determine the protocol type of the destination object; and a terminal information database containing terminal information database entries, each entry associating a termination identifier and the object connection identifier to the protocol type of the destination object, the terminal information database searched by the protocol conversion means when the object condition mode is verified to be master to determine the protocol type of the destination object.