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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2010
Javier M. Lopez, Alameda, CA (US);
Imtiaz Shaikh, Irving, TX (US);
Phillip A. Ritter, Danville, CA (US);
Javier M. Lopez, Alameda, CA (US);
Imtiaz Shaikh, Irving, TX (US);
Phillip A. Ritter, Danville, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method may include receiving, from a user device, a request to access a long term evolution (LTE) network; sending, to one or more servers of a group of servers, a query to obtain information associated with a respective traffic condition and processing capacity; identifying a particular server via which to establish a communication session with the user device based on a determination that the particular server has a reserve processing capacity that is greater than a respective reserve processing capacity associated with other ones of the servers, where the reserve processing capacity is based on a traffic condition and processing capacity associated with the particular server; and sending, to the particular server, an instruction to establish the communication session, where sending the instruction enables the particular server to establish the communication session via which the user device is to access the network.