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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
May. 11, 2015
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Chaoxin Qiu, Austin, TX (US);
Robert F. Dailey, Austin, TX (US);
Arshad Khan, Austin, TX (US);
Satish Parolkar, Austin, TX (US);
Jeffrey L. Scruggs, Round Rock, TX (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling a call volume for an office that serves as a protecting site for another office in a packet network are disclosed. For example, the method collects one or more customer registration counts from one or more session border controllers located in a first office, determines if the one or more customer registration counts have reached or exceeded a threshold. The method directs all of said one or more session border controllers located in said first office to enact one or more throttling rules if the one or more customer registration counts have reached or exceeded the threshold.