DEVICE FOR MANAGING MEDIA SERVER RESOURCES FOR INTERFACING BETWEEN APPLICATION SERVERS AND MEDIA SERVERS IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

The invention concerns a device (D) dedicated to managing media server resources (MSj), of a communication network (CR), adapted to provide to client communication terminals (T), requesting services, comprising at least one media part, managed by application servers (ASi), sets of media functions for providing the media parts of the requested services. Said device (D) comprises storage means (BD) storing data representing media functions matching the media server identifiers (MSj) and managing means (MG) adapted, upon receiving a message from an application server (ASi) dedicated to a service requested by a client terminal (T) and requiring the provision of a set of media functions for providing a media part of the requested service, to determine in the storage means (BD) the identifier of a media server (MSj) having the resources for offering the requested set, then allocate resources of said media server (MSj) so that the message may be transmitted thereto.