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System and method for load balancing computer resources

US10715587B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 11, 2014
Grant dateJul 14, 2020
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Expiry dateAug 14, 2036

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L47/783
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A networked computational architecture for provisioning of virtualized computational resources. The architecture is accessible by a client application run on a client device. The architecture includes a hardware layer having a plurality of server devices, each server device having at least one physical processor having a local memory. A resource controller is provided and operable to allocate a plurality of server devices to a client application for data processing and to assign control information to the client application. The control information specifies the required allocation of a data processing workload to each server device allocated to the client application. The architecture is configured such that client applications send the data processing workload directly to each server in accordance with the control information. Thus, a networked architecture is load balanced indirectly without requiring a load balancer to be located in the data path between the client and the server.

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