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US 9,438,636 B2Granted
Method to block split phone and gateway registration
AssigneeAvaya Inc.
InventorsCharles Farwell, Don Gillespie, Cliff Grimes, Scott Hendrick, Won Huh, Tim Kaye, Robert Mitchell, Ted Morrow, Tamara Jo Noirot, Nancy Schmidt, Rick Windhausen
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a method and system to forcibly unregister and/or prevent registration of a gateway and/or other endpoint in a network region in response to a survivable gatekeeper servicing the network region becoming active.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- (a) determining, by a primary gatekeeper, that a status of a survivable gatekeeper assigned to a selected network region has become active, wherein the determined status of the survivable gatekeeper changes from inactive to active in response to the primary gatekeeper determining that a gateway or a communications endpoint in the selected network region is registering with the survivable gatekeeper, wherein the primary gatekeeper receives notification that the survivable gatekeeper has become active, and wherein when the primary gatekeeper determines that the survivable gatekeeper is inactive no gateway or communications endpoint is registered with the survivable gatekeeper;
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- (b) in response to determining by the primary gatekeeper that the survivable gatekeeper has become active, at least one of:
- 1) unregistering, from the primary gatekeeper, at least one of a gateway or communications endpoint assigned to the selected network region;
- or 2) the primary gatekeeper preventing registration, with the primary gatekeeper, of the at least one of the gateway or communications endpoint.
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A primary gatekeeper, comprising:
- an interface that communicates, via a network, with a survivable gatekeeper, gateway, and communications endpoint;
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- a processor programmed to:
- (i) determine that a status of the survivable gatekeeper assigned to a selected network region has become active in response to receiving a notification from the survivable gatekeeper that the survivable gatekeeper has become active, wherein the processor determines that the status of the survivable gatekeeper has changed from inactive to active in response to the gateway or the communications endpoint in the selected network region registering with the survivable gatekeeper, and wherein the processor determines that the survivable gatekeeper is inactive in response to no gateway or communications endpoint being registered with the survivable gatekeeper;
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- (ii) in response, at least one of (A) force the gateway or communications endpoint assigned to the selected network region to unregister with the primary gatekeeper or (B) deny registration, with the primary gatekeeper, of the gateway and/or communications endpoint.
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A survivable gatekeeper, comprising:
- an interface that communicates, via a network, with a primary gatekeeper, gateway, and communications endpoint, the gateway and communications endpoint being in a selected network region;
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- a processor programmed to:
- transition from an inactive state to an active state, wherein, in the active state, the processor registers the gateway or communications endpoint in the selected network region, wherein the processor changes the state from the inactive state to the active state in response to the processor registering successfully the gateway or the communications endpoint in the selected network region and wherein, when the processor is in the inactive state, the processor does not register the gateway or communications endpoint in the selected network region;
- and notify a primary gatekeeper that the processor is now in the active state to cause the primary gatekeeper to unregister or deny registration of a gateway or communications endpoint in the selected network region.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.