Non-volatile mission-ready database for signaling transfer point

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A Signaling Transfer Point has a Host complex with a hard disk storage and a processor coupled to a plurality of Network payload processors each of which has a DRAM, memory. 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 the event of a power failure or any event requiring a, reload or refresh of the database of a network payload processor, the Host processor in, response to a request from a recovering payload processor transmits the database to the, payload processor in the form as stored on the hard disk.