| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for balancing multimedia message loading within a network (118). When a multimedia message is received at the load balancer (102), one of the two or more multimedia service relays (104) is selected to process the multimedia message. The load balancer (102) is communicably coupled to the two or more multimedia service relays (104) and the two more multimedia service servers (106). The multimedia message is then sent to the selected multimedia service relay (104) for processing. Thereafter, the processed multimedia message is received from the selected multimedia service relay (104), one of the two or more multimedia service servers (106) is selected to store the multimedia message on a message storage device (108) communicably coupled to the selected multimedia service server (106), and the processed multimedia message is sent to the selected multimedia service server (106).</p> |
