Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer network managing – Network resource allocating
Reexamination Certificate
2003-06-26
2009-06-02
Follansbee, John (Department: 2451)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer network managing
Network resource allocating
C709S228000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07543061
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a system for servers to redirect client requests to other servers in order to distribute client traffic among the servers. A client is assigned to a server although the client may be unaware of that assignment. When the client accesses a server, a server possibly identified to the client by a name service, the server checks the client's assignment. If the client is not assigned to this server, then in some scenarios this server redirects the client to its assigned server. The client responds by sending its request to the assigned server. In other scenarios, the first server accessed by the client proxies the client's traffic to the assigned server. A database is kept of client-to-server assignments. If the present load distribution is less than ideal (e.g., clients are assigned to an unavailable server), then the assignment database is updated to reflect how the load should be distributed.
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Apreutesei Elena
Brown Robert
Kumbalimutt Vishwajith
Simons David J.
Chou Alan S
Follansbee John
Microsoft Corporation
Perkins Coie LLP
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