Patent ID: 8134926

Claim:
A method for monitoring and reporting events by a media gateway, comprising the steps of: presetting said events to be monitored in said media gateway according to a protocol for presetting said events between a media gateway controller and the media gateway before the media gateway is started up, wherein said events are parameters carried in commands of H.248 or Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP); monitoring the preset events by said media gateway; reporting the monitoring result to the media gateway controller when the media gateway detects said preset events during operation; issuing events, relevant parameters and Request IDs to the media gateway by the media gateway controller, during the monitoring of said preset events; and monitoring said events with said relevant parameters and said Request IDs received from said media gateway controller, wherein said events received from said media gateway controller have a life cycle and monitoring said events with said relevant parameters and said Request IDs received from said media gateway controller comprises monitoring said events with said relevant parameters and said Request IDs received from said media gateway controller within said life cycle.