Abstract: A method and apparatus for presenting advertisements is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having an inspection element that monitors packet traffic associated with an end user, and determines a behavioral profile of the end user from the monitored packet traffic, a publisher element that detects an end user visiting a website managed thereby, and generates an advertisement request associated with the website, and advertisement element that selects one or more advertisements according to the behavioral profile of the end user, and submits said one or more advertisements to the publisher element for presentation thereof to the end user. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A load balancer assigns a mobile registration request to a mobile communication processing server (MCPS) based on an amount of free space in a visitor location register (VLR) of the MCPS. In an embodiment, the load balancer assigns the mobile registration request to the MCPS with a probability equal to the amount of free space in the VLR divided by a total amount of free space in a plurality of VLRs of a plurality of MCPSs, the plurality of MCPSs including the MCPS.