Patent ID: 9294348
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus to provision subscribers to name-servers, comprising: a correcting profile mapping a first name-server to a first range of profile assignment values and a second name-server to a second range of profile assignment values, the first range and the second range based on a first available capacity of the first name-server and a second available capacity of the second name-server, the first range being smaller than the second range when the first available capacity is smaller than the second available capacity; a random number generator to generate a pseudo random number, the random number generator to calculate a profile assignment value for a subscriber based on (a) a subscriber identifier of the subscriber and (b) the pseudo random number from the random number generator; and an assignor to assign the subscriber to one of the first name-server and the second name-server by applying the profile assignment value for the subscriber to the mapping of the correcting profile.