Forward request queuing in a distributed edge processing environment
US10270817B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 6, 2016 |
| Grant date | Apr 23, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 6, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L65/762
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A server in a distributed environment includes a process that manages incoming client requests and selectively forwards service requests to other servers in the network. The server includes storage in which at least one forwarding queue is established. The server includes code for aggregating service requests in the forwarding queue and then selectively releasing the requests, or some of them, to another server. The queuing mechanism preferably is managed by metadata, which, for example, controls how many service requests may be placed in the queue, how long a given service request may remain in the queue, what action to take in response to a client request if the forwarding queue's capacity is reached, etc. In one embodiment, the server generates an estimate of a current load on an origin server (to which it is sending forwarding requests) and instantiates the forward request queuing when that current load is reached.
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