Patent ID: 9426088
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: obtaining, for protection of network resources from overload and for disaster management, resource blocks for a signaling part of a distributed virtual service element 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 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; controlling, by the signaling part of the distributed virtual service element, allocation of the resources from the media part of the distributed virtual service element via instructions over virtual network links; 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 the pool is presented to the signaling part of the distributed virtual service element; and allocating and using the resource blocks for the applications and services for a duration of time; and releasing the resources after utilization.