Methods, systems and devices for dynamic context-based routing using a topology tree

Abstract

Methods, servers and systems for communicating signaling information in a telecommunications signaling network may involve using a topology tree categorizing network nodes into groups, receiving a first message encoding signaling information from a source, decoding the received first message into an internal representation of the message, determining if the internal representation identifies a destination component in the topology tree, performing application level routing operations by hierarchy to determine if information contained in the internal representation identifies a destination component in the topology tree, packaging the information contained in the internal representation into a second message encoding signaling information, and sending the second message encoding signaling information to the identified destination component. The topology tree may include one or more domains as root nodes, a peer-group as an internal node for each of the one or more domains, and a peer as a terminal node for the at least one peer-group.