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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2012
The Directv Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Vishal Arya, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Shahzad Ali, El Segundo, CA (US);
Christopher J. Cugno, Anaheim, CA (US);
Thai Lam, Torrance, CA (US);
Michael A. Makhijani, Playa Vista, CA (US);
Vaibhav Singh, Los Angeles, CA (US);
The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for assigning processing requests is disclosed. The method is typically used in a processing system comprising a first processing center and one or more second processing centers remote from the first processing center, a. A method of assigning a processing request may comprise the steps of: determining at a traffic distribution controller a capacity of each of the processing centers to process the processing request, accepting a processing request in the first processing center, and assigning the processing request to at least one of the second processing centers according to the determined current capacity of each of the processing centers. The processing request is initially addressed to a first global address of the first processing center, then the processing request is readdressed to a second global address of one of the second processing centers.