Patent ID: 8761786
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for assigning communication cells to voice traffic servers in a communication network, the method comprising: evaluating a plurality of defined factors associated with a plurality of users, including their associated communication devices, in said communication network to determine one or more points of commonality which exist among identified first users of said plurality of users in a communication cell and identified second users of said plurality of users on at least one voice traffic server and which signify a probability that said identified first and second users will be communicating with each other; based on said points of commonality, existing among said first and second users, determining a group affinity and a geographic affinity between users in the communication cell and each voice traffic server of a plurality of voice traffic servers; and dynamically assigning, based on said group affinity and said geographic affinity, a selected voice traffic server from among said plurality of voice traffic servers, to service a cellular data network base station associated with the communication cell.