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US 7,257,642 B1Granted
Channel load balancing
AssigneeSurp Communication Solutions Ltd.
InventorsJacob Bridger, Arnon Netzer, Amnon Gavish
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Abstract
A method of channel routing. The method includes receiving an incoming connection, determining an amount of processing resources required to handle the incoming connection, and selecting a remote access server to handle the incoming connection, responsive to the determined amount of processing resources.
Claims23
A method of channel routing, comprising:
- receiving a plurality of connections having different attributes requiring different amounts of processing resources and assigning them to remote access servers in a pool of remote access servers;
- receiving a specific incoming connection;
- determining an amount of processing resources required to handle the specific incoming connection, responsive to at least one attribute of the specific incoming connection;
- selecting from the pool a remote access server to handle the specific incoming connection, responsive to the defined amount of processing resources and a priority of the specific incoming connection;
- requesting from the selected remote access server to lower the amount of processing resources assigned to one or more currently handled connections in order to vacate resources for the received incoming connection;
- and
- rerouting a connection from the selected remote access server to a different server, in order to make room for the incoming connection to be handled entirely by the selected remote access server.
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A switch system which handles incoming connections, comprising:
- a plurality of remote access servers;
- and
- a channel router which is adapted to determine for each incoming connection an amount of processing resources required to handle the incoming connection and which is adapted to select one of the remote access servers to handle the connection, responsive to the determined amount of processing resource,
- wherein the channel router is adapted to instruct selected remote access servers to reduce the processing resources assigned to one or more currently handled connections of the server, without disconnecting the connection, in order to vacate resources for the received incoming connections,
- and reroute a connection from the selected remote access server to a different server, in order to make room for the incoming connection to be handled entirely by the selected remote access server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.