Patent ID: 8321376

Claim:
A system for resolving addresses in an Internet Protocol (IP) based network, said system comprising: an address resolving master database configured to store both ENUM data and DNS data; a plurality of slave databases configured to store data received from the master database for resolving address queries from a plurality of slave applications; and a plurality of transfer agents, each allocated to one of the plurality of slave databases, configured to read data from the master database, and to write the data from the master database to the slave databases, wherein one of the transfer agents is configured to transfer only the ENUM data from the master database to a first one of the slave databases, and another of the transfer agents is configured to transfer only the DNS data from the master database to a second one of the slave databases; wherein the plurality of slave applications include an ENUM slave application and a DNS slave application, wherein the ENUM application is configured to access only the first slave database when performing an address query, and the DNS application is configured to access only the second slave database when performing an address query; and wherein the plurality of slave applications are thereby enabled to more efficiently resolve address queries.