Patent ID: 7948971

Claim:
A media resource control method, comprising: reporting, by a first media gateway, source attributes of locally transmitted media and locally received media to a media gateway controller, wherein the source attributes comprise at least one of a media type, a network address and port, and a codec type used at a transmission end; receiving, by the media gateway controller, the source attributes of the locally transmitted media and the locally received media reported from the first media gateway; determining, by the media gateway controller, the source attributes of the locally transmitted media according to destination attributes of locally received media of the first media gateway, when the source attributes of the locally transmitted media and the destination attributes of locally received media of the first media gateway are at least partly identical, wherein the destination attributes comprise at least one of media type, a network address and port, and a codec typed used at a reception end; and indicating, by the media gateway controller, the source attributes of at least one of locally transmitted media and locally received media to the first media gateway.