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Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2005
Applicants:

Mario E. DE Armas, Wellington, FL (US);

Matthew W. Hartley, Delray Beach, FL (US);

Joseph I. Herman, Ellicot City, MD (US);

Wendi L. Nusbickel, Boca Raton, FL (US);

Geetika Tandon, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Inventors:

Mario E. De Armas, Wellington, FL (US);

Matthew W. Hartley, Delray Beach, FL (US);

Joseph I. Herman, Ellicot City, MD (US);

Wendi L. Nusbickel, Boca Raton, FL (US);

Geetika Tandon, Silver Spring, MD (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A machine readable storage can include a set of instructions for load balancing. The storage can include a plug-in receptor of a load balancer. The plug-in receptor can be compliant with a known industry standard and can be is associated with a two or more load balancing algorithms. The load balancer can utilize selected ones of the load balancing algorithms to determine which of two or more voice servers are to handle incoming speech processing requests. Selected ones of the load balancing algorithms can include a speech utilization algorithm. The speech utilization algorithm can calculate a speech utilization score for at least one of the voice servers based upon speech processing specific factors.


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