Patent ID: 9729454
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A workload balancer for Diameter message traffic received long-lived Diameter connections, the workload balancer comprising: a Diameter signaling router; at least one connection front end processor located in the Diameter signaling router for terminating Diameter connections with external Diameter nodes; a plurality of back end processors located in the Diameter signaling router for performing application or routing processing for Diameter messages received over the Diameter connections, wherein the at least one connection front end processor continually load shares the Diameter messages received over existing Diameter connections among the back end processors; and a virtualization manager for creating a virtual routing back end instance and allocating resources to the virtual routing back end instance on one of the back end processors in the Diameter signaling router with available processing capacity and that is currently functioning as an application back end processor.