METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BALANCING THE PROCESS LOAD ON NETWORK SERVERS ACCORDING TO NETWORK AND SERVER BASED POLICIES

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BALANCING THE PROCESS LOAD ON NETWORK SERVERS ACCORDING TO NETWORK AND SERVER BASED POLICIES

According to the present invention, a method and system provides the ability to assign requests for data objects made by clients among multiple network servers. The invention provides a distributed computi ng system and methods to assign user requests to replicated servers contained by the distribut...

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Hauptverfasser: WATSON, BRETT DEAN, HOTZ, STEVEN MICHAEL, VANDEVENTER, IAN BURKE, PETTINGELL, BRIAN EVERETT, DYKES, BARRY A, JOFFE, RODNEY LANCE, OPPELMAN, VICTOR JOSEPH II, MCCARTHY, NILS HERBERT, LIPPARD, JAMES JOSEPH, BRITTAIN, JASON ALAN
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng ; fre
Schlagworte:
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION
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Zusammenfassung:According to the present invention, a method and system provides the ability to assign requests for data objects made by clients among multiple network servers. The invention provides a distributed computi ng system and methods to assign user requests to replicated servers contained by the distributed computing system in a manner that attempts to meet the goals of a particular routing policy. Policies may include minimizing the amount of time for the request to be completed.