Non-volatile mission-ready database for signaling transfer point

摘要

A Signaling Transfer Point (STP) has a Host complex with non- volatile storage and a processor coupled to a plurality of Network payload processors, each of which has a volatile memory. The STP restores a database of the non-volatile Host to the volatile memory of the plurality of processors after a power interruption or any event requiring reloading or refreshing of the database. Host and Payload processor databases each have a data structure, which is a balanced binary red- black tree, and a cell manager, which provides allocation and direct access to the cells of the binary tree. In an event requiring a reload or refresh of the database, the memory manager of the Host process and the memory manager of the requesting payload processor transmit the Host database to the payload processor in the form as stored on the volatile memory.