Patent ID: 7929555

Claim:
A method for instructing a media gateway, MG, to carry out termination connections, comprising: acquiring by a media gateway controller, MGC, information on the MG's connection capability for various types of terminations; and transmitting a connection indication from the MGC to the MG according to the information on the MG's connection capability for various types of terminations, when the MG is instructed by the MGC to carry out termination connections; wherein the information on the MG's connection capability for various types of terminations comprises at least one of information on termination connection configuration supported by the MG and information on termination connection configuration not supported by the MG; wherein the information on termination connection configuration comprises at least one of: any two termination types and a connection direction between terminations of the two termination types; and any termination type and a maximum number of terminations of the termination type in a call session scenario involving multiple parties.