Patent ID: 11880713
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 19:
20. An apparatus for optimizing an allocation of R of cryptographic resources to a plurality of sessions, each of the R cryptographic resources shareable by no more than N sessions, wherein N>R, and each of the R cryptographic resources being characterized by one of an idle state, a running state and a dirty state, comprising:
means for receiving a request from one of the plurality of sessions to use one of the R cryptographic resources;
means for determining if any of the R cryptographic resources is in the running state and sharable by the requesting session;
means for allocating that one of the R cryptographic resources in the running state to the requesting session if any of the R cryptographic resources is in the running state and sharable by the requesting session; and
means for allocating another one of the R cryptographic resources to the requesting session if none of R cryptographic resources is in the running state and sharable by the requesting session.