Patent ID: 7490328

Claim:
A method of operating a processor pool having a given maximal processing power, in handling mobile data connections, comprising: connecting a plurality of mobile data connections, which may require up to a total peak processing power greater than the given maximal processing power of the processor pool, to the processor pool; assigning a data connection to a first processor of the processor pool; processing a plurality of first data packets transmitted on the assigned data connection, by a first processor of the processor pool; transferring the handling of the assigned data connection to a second processor of the processor pool, after processing the plurality of first data packets, by the first processor; and processing a plurality of second data packets transmitted on the assigned data connection, by the second processor of the processor pool after the transfer, wherein after the transfer of the handling to the second processor, data packets of the connection are not handled again by the first processor, and wherein connecting a plurality of mobile data connections comprises connecting a plurality of mobile data connections which may require up to a total peak processing power at least five times greater than the given maximal processing power of the processor pool.