Hitachi, Ltd.

Tomohide Sugimoto

Yuichi Mori

Kansuke Kuroyanagi

Ryogo Honda

Etsuko Iwama

Makoto Hirayama

Kazuhiro Kita

In an Internet telephone connection method, a communication bandwidth is managed by using a bandwidth controller, gateway devices and voice relay routers to monitor communication quality under bandwidth reservation. A communication path under bandwidth reservation is preferentially selected by using gate keepers and the voice relay routers, and the connection of the Internet telephone is performed. A problematic device is prohibited from being selected as a connection-destination device at the time of a call setup and the problem restoration is monitored by using the gate keepers and the gateway devices. Further, a device having invalid attribute information is prohibited from being selected as a connection-destination device at the time of call-setup, and the restoration of the attribute information is notified to the overall network. Accordingly, the reservation of the communication bandwidth can be performed under the control of the overall network, fixed communication quality can be maintained and reliability can be enhanced.

Internet telephone connection method, bandwidth controller and gate keeper

In executing a setup procedure of a call from a VoIP gateway on the originating side to a media gateway on the destination side via a gate keeper, an authentication key is transmitted from the gate keeper to the VoIP gateway and the media gateway. The VoIP gateway on the originating side transmits to the media gateway on the destination side an admissions confirm (ACF) after attaching the authentication key. Then, the media gateway collates the authentication key obtained from the originator VoIP gateway with the authentication key obtained from the gate keeper and continues the call setup procedure only when the two authentication keys coincide with each other. On the other hand, in case of non-coincidence, the gate keeper carries out a call release. Through this, an illegal connection call not routing through the gate keeper is excluded without fail.

Internet telephone system

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Fujisawa, Japan

Tomohide Sugimoto