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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
May. 21, 2008
Oliver Speks, Eschweiler, DE;
Jacky Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Oliver Speks, Eschweiler, DE;
Jacky Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a switching center server comprising: —a blade cluster with a plurality of blades (), —a plurality of pooled resources accessible by said plurality of blades () for handling a call, and —a master () provided on one of the blades centrally coordinating the usage of the pooled resources, the master as a central instance being responsible for allocation, de-allocation and maintenance of the pooled resources. At outage of one or more blades, the invention provides mechanisms to keep impacts on ongoing calls to a minimum and to keep pooled resources available to the remaining blades.