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Determining capacity of virtual devices in a voice over internet protocol system

  • US 9,497,235 B2
  • Filed: 05/30/2014
  • Issued: 11/15/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for determining a capacity of a virtual machine in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system that includes a plurality of sites, the method comprising:

  • at the virtual machine, determining a resource configuration of the virtual machine including a number of central processing unit (CPU) cores, a CPU clock rate, and a memory size allocated to the virtual machine, the virtual machine being a single device configured via one or more software applications as a conference bridge for providing conferencing services;

    sending the resource configuration from the virtual machine to a VoIP system configuration application, the VoIP system configuration application running on a server that is separate from the virtual machine, the resource configuration sent from the virtual machine to the server via a network;

    at the VoIP system configuration application, determining a capacity of the virtual machine based on the resource configuration, the capacity determining a number of conference ports supported by the virtual machine;

    at the VoIP system configuration application, assigning the virtual machine to a site of the plurality of sites in the VoIP system, the assignment determining a primary association between endpoints within the site and the virtual machine, the virtual machine being the only virtual machine within the site for providing the conferencing services;

    thereafterat the virtual machine, determining a new resource configuration of the virtual machine, the new resource configuration resulting from a change in at least one of the number of CPU cores, the CPU clock rate, or the memory size allocated to the virtual machine;

    sending the new resource configuration from the virtual machine to the VoIP system configuration application; and

    at the VoIP system configuration application, determining a new capacity of the virtual machine based on the new resource configuration, the new capacity determining a new number of conference ports supported by the conference bridge that is different from the number of conference ports supported by the conference bridge.

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