Patent ID: 7702310

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for load balancing management of subscribers' communications sessions in a communications management network, the method comprising: configuring a plurality of server sets, wherein each server set comprises two or more session management servers configured to manage subscribers' communication sessions; for each session management server in a server set, configuring a service order code to provision the session management server as a primary session management server and a different session management sever in the server set as a secondary session management server; associating a different service order code with each of multiple collections of subscribers, wherein each subscriber belongs to one of the collections of subscribers; and load balancing management of the subscribers' communication sessions among the server sets by provisioning a communications switching network with the service order codes associated with each subscriber's collection of subscribers, wherein provisioning the communications switching network comprises, for each subscriber in a first collection of subscribers, facilitating registration of the service order code associated with the first collection of subscribers with a home location register of the communications switching network.