System and method for cloud-based implementation of control of focused overload of service element (COFO-SE) via explicit (or virtualized) machine-to-machine (M2M) gateway element

An apparatus comprising:

• a distributed virtualized service element that is realized in a plurality of distributed tangible networked elements including a plurality of distributed computing processors communicatively coupled to a plurality of distributed data storage devices, wherein the distributed virtualized service element, for protection of network resources from overload and for disaster management, obtains for a signaling part of the distributed virtualized service element resource blocks from a variety of networked resources, wherein the resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view of the pool as a part of the distributed virtualized service element is presented to applications and services that communicate with the signaling part of the distributed virtualized service element;
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• wherein a media part of the distributed virtualized service element includes resource blocks from the variety of networked resources, wherein the resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view of the pool is presented to the signaling part of the distributed virtualized service element;
• wherein the signaling part of the distributed virtualized service element is further configured to control allocation of resources from the media part of the distributed virtualized service element via instructions over a plurality of virtual network links;
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• wherein the resource blocks for the applications and services are allocated to be used for a duration of time and released after utilization.

A system comprising:

• means realized on a plurality of distributed tangible networked computing processors communicatively coupled to a plurality of distributed tangible networked data storage devices, wherein the means, for protection of network resources from overload and for disaster management, obtains for a signaling part of a distributed virtualized service element, resource blocks from a variety of networked resources, for protection of network resources from overload and for disaster management;
• means realized on the processors and storage devices, for controlling allocation of resources from a media part of the distributed virtualized service element;
• means realized on the processors and storage devices, for obtaining resource blocks for the media part of the distributed virtualized service element from the variety of networked resources, wherein the resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view of the pool is presented to the signaling part of the distributed virtualized service element;
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• means realized on the processors and storage devices, whereby the distributed virtualized service element obtains for a signaling part of the distributed virtualized service element resource blocks from a variety of networked resources, wherein the resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view of the pool as a part of the distributed virtualized service element is presented to applications and services that communicate with the signaling part of the distributed virtualized service element
• wherein the signaling part of the distributed virtualized service element operates over a plurality of virtual network links;
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• means for using wherein the resource blocks for the applications and services are allocated for a duration of time.

An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon executable on a plurality of networked computing processors communicatively coupled to a plurality of networked data storage devices as a distributed virtual service element, the instructions comprising:

• instructions for obtaining, for protection of network resources from overload and for disaster management, resource blocks for a signaling part of the distributed virtual service element from a variety of networked resources, wherein the resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view of the pool as part of the distributed virtual service element is presented to applications and services communicating with the signaling part of the distributed virtual service element;
• instructions for controlling, by the signaling part of the distributed virtual service element, allocation of resources from a media part of the distributed virtual service element via instructions over a plurality of virtual private network links;
• instructions for obtaining resource blocks for the media part of the distributed virtual service element from the variety of networked resources, wherein the resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view of the pool is presented to the signaling part of the distributed virtual service element;
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• instructions for allocating the resource blocks for applications and services for a session duration, or transaction length, of time.