Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Pranil Pradeep Vaidya

Richard D Lasken

Avneesh Singh Balyan

Randy J Paul

Khalid H Sheta

Satish Polakampalli

The invention includes a method and apparatus for establishing DIAMETER associations between nodes of a network. The invention uses a DIAMETER application server disposed between DIAMETER nodes in order to establish DIAMETER associations between nodes and, further, to provide DIAMETER traffic load balancing using established associations. A method includes receiving a DIAMETER connection establishment request from an originating node requesting an association with a destination node, terminating the DIAMETER connection establishment request, obtaining respective DIAMETER associations for the originating node and the destination node, linking the obtained DIAMETER associations, and storing the linked DIAMETER associations. The DIAMETER association for a node may be obtained by identifying a node associated with the DIAMETER connection establishment request, determining if an association exists for the identified node, and retrieving the association from memory if an association exists for the identified node, retrieving the association from memory, or, if an association does not exist for the identified node, establishing the association.

Method and apparatus for establishing and managing diameter associations

An apparatus in one example comprises a management component that handles information storage to one or more storage locations of a database. The one or more storage locations comprise one or more available locations that are free of allocation to any particular variable. The management component maps one or more variables of one or more client applications to respective one or more selected locations of the one or more available locations.

Mapping of client application variable to database storage location free of allocation to any particular variable

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