Patent ID: 9397887
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: obtaining resource blocks for a signaling part of a distributed virtual session border gateway that is hosted on a plurality of distributed tangible networked elements including a plurality of distributed computing processors communicatively coupled to a plurality of distributed storage devices, from a variety of networked resources, wherein the resource blocks are integrated into a pool and a unified view of the pool is presented to applications and services communicating with the distributed virtual signaling part of the session border gateway; controlling, by the signaling part of the distributed virtual session border gateway, allocation of resources from a media part of the distributed virtual session border gateway via instructions over virtual network links; obtaining resource blocks for the media part of the distributed virtual session border gateway from a 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 session border gateway; and allocating the resource blocks for the applications and services for a duration of time.