Subscriber Assignment
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent Canada Inc.
InventorsRobert A. Mann, Lui Chu Yeung
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Abstract
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at the network device from an entity, a request for a serving device assigned to a subscriber; attempting to locate an assignment record associated with the subscriber; in response to locating the assignment record associated with the subscriber, identifying an assigned serving device of the multiple serving devices indicated by the assignment record as being assigned to the subscriber; and transmitting a response to the entity, wherein the response identifies the assigned serving device.
Claims20
A method performed by a network device for distributing subscribers among multiple serving devices, the method comprising:
- receiving, at the network device from an entity, a request for a serving device assigned to a subscriber;
- attempting to locate an assignment record associated with the subscriber;
- in response to locating the assignment record associated with the subscriber, identifying an assigned serving device of the multiple serving devices indicated by the assignment record as being assigned to the subscriber;
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- transmitting a response to the entity, wherein the response identifies the assigned serving device.
A subscriber assignment device comprising:
- an interface that receives a request for an assigned blade from an entity, wherein the request includes an identifier associated with a requested subscriber;
- a subscriber assignment storage that stores a plurality of assignment records, wherein each assignment record is associated with a subscriber and includes an identification of an assigned blade;
- an identifier lookup module configured to attempt to locate an assignment record of the plurality of assignment records that includes the identifier associated with the requested subscriber;
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- an assigned blade reporter configured to, in response to the identifier lookup module locating the assignment record, report the identification of an assigned blade included in the assignment record to the entity.
A tangible and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for execution by a network device for distributing subscribers among multiple serving devices, the tangible and non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising:
- instructions for receiving, at the network device from an entity, a request for a serving device assigned to a subscriber;
- instructions for attempting to locate an assignment record associated with the subscriber;
- instructions for, in response to locating the assignment record associated with the subscriber, identifying an assigned serving device of the multiple serving devices indicated by the assignment record as being assigned to the subscriber;
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- instructions for transmitting a response to the entity, wherein the response identifies the assigned serving device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.