Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ)

Tobias Karlsson

Reda Haddad

Mahmood Hossain

David Sinicrope

Venugopalan Ullanatt

Ritesh Ahuja

Vladica Stanisic

James Arthur Davis

Khanna Sanjay

A load balancer dynamically load balances packets for network connections between clients and servers. When receiving a packet from a client that requests a new connection, the load balancer checks the current load of all the servers and selects the server most suitable to handle the new connection. The load balancer then forwards that packet to the selected server. If the server accepts the request for the new connection, then the server responds with an acknowledgement packet. The acknowledgement packet also includes the server's blade identification that the client uses for all subsequent packets on the accepted connection. When the load balancer receives a packet containing the blade identification, the load balancer forwards the packet to the server corresponding to the blade identification. Backup load balancers can therefore continue packet forwarding services in a smooth and efficient manner.

Stateless forwarding of load balanced packets

A system and method for updating a plurality of subscribers served by a server. The system includes a server and a database coupled to the server. The database has link elements organized into a linked list. The link elements include a plurality of data link elements associated with data entries. Additionally, the link elements include at least one marker link element not associated with any data entry. The subscriber communicates with the server. The server steps through the plurality of link elements for updated entries, determines if each stepped link element is a data link element, formats the updated data associated with the data link element and appends the formatted data to an update message. The update message, at a specified time, is sent to at least one subscriber. In addition, a marker link element is inserted at a specified position in the linked list to indicate update of the linked list.

System and method of mirroring a database to a plurality of subscribers

The present invention relates to a pair of routers which implement an active VRRP group and one or more passive VRRP groups wherein the active VRRP group executes the VRRP election protocol and the passive VRRP group(s) do not execute the VRRP election protocol but instead the passive VRRP group(s) mimic the active VRRP group such that when the active VRRP group has a state change then all of it's dependent passive VRRP group(s) will also have the same state change such as becoming a master or a backup.

Passive virtual router redundancy prototcol

A Content Addressable Memory (CAM) that downloads and banks a group of filters. Each filter has an associated filter-index, which is mapped in a mapping table to an available CAM address for storing the associated filter. Each succeeding filter in the group of filters is stored in a higher address in the CAM. The plurality of CAM addresses may not all be contiguous, in which case the mapping table maps each succeeding filter-index to the next higher available CAM address without regard to contiguity of the addresses.

Content addressable memory (CAM) and method of downloading and banking filters

A system and corresponding method for randomly reordering a plurality or sequence of elements (E). In certain embodiments, ATM cells received by a switching apparatus may be randomly reordered as they proceed through an ATM switching apparatus, so as to enable the cells to be treated in a more fair manner. In one exemplary embodiment, a number or value within a given range(s) is randomly generated for each element E in a sequence or group to be randomly reordered. Each element E is shifted through a number of empty logic units or positions determined by the randomly generated number for that element, until finally being stored in one such unit. If none of the randomly generated number(s) for an element fall within the given range, a reserve number may be used to indicate how many empty logic units the element should be shifted, or a retry flag if set may cause a new set of random numbers to be generated for the element at issue.

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Tobias Karlsson