Patent ID: 7860001

Claim:
A telecommunications system comprising: a communications network; N nodes, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, which run a same application and process a same range of application level traffic, which communicate with each other through the network using signaling protocols, each of the N nodes having a full receive state where a node receives any type of traffic from the other nodes and an isolated receive state where the node only receives allocated traffic from the other nodes, the node sending traffic to the other nodes whether the node is in the full receive state or the isolated receive state; and a signaling process means for recalculating percentages of non-allocated traffic to be sent to signaling processes serving an application server when there is a change of weight of at least one signaling process that serves the application server, and wherein the receiving only allocated traffic step includes the step of computing a hash value from the message parameters and the hash value discriminating allocated traffic from non-allocated traffic.