Selective message discard
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorJohn L. Schantz
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Abstract
An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium having computer readable code embodied therein is disclosed. The computer readable code is configured to enable selective discarding of messages received at a receiving device coupled to a telecommunication network. There is included code for ascertaining whether a type associated with a received message at the receiving device is one of protected message types. There is further included code for passing, if the type associated with the received message is the one of the protected message types, the received message to an application irrespective of an age of the received message, the age being representative of a time duration that the message has been present in the receiving device.
Claims20
A method for selective discarding SS7 messages received at a receiving device, said receiving device being part of a telecommunication network, comprising:
- ascertaining whether a selective message discard feature is enabled in said receiving device;
- if said selective message discard is enabled, ascertaining whether a type associated with a received message at said receiving device is one of protected message types;
- and
- if said type associated with said received message is said one of said protected message types, passing said received message to an application irrespective of an age of said received message, said age being representative of a time duration that said message has been present in said receiving device.
A receiving device coupled to a telecommunication network, said receiving device being configured to receive SS7 messages from a transmitting device also coupled to said telecommunication network, comprising:
- logic for ascertaining whether a selective message discard feature is enabled in said receiving device;
- logic for ascertaining, if said selective message discard is enabled, whether a type associated with a received message at said receiving device is one of protected message types;
- and
- logic for passing, if said type associated with said received message is said one of said protected message types, said received message to an application irrespective of an age of said received message, said age being representative of a time duration that said message has been present in said receiving device.
An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium having computer readable code embodied therein, said computer readable code being configured to enable selective discarding of messages received at a receiving device coupled to a telecommunication network, comprising:
- code for ascertaining whether a type associated with a received message at said receiving device is one of protected message types;
- and
- code for passing, if said type associated with said received message is said one of said protected message types, said received message to an application irrespective of an age of said received message, said age being representative of a time duration that said message has been present in said receiving device, wherein said computer readable code embodied in said article of manufacture is configured to be executed in at least one computer system to relieve message congestion at said receiving device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.