Virtual socket for load balancing and failover
US12375406B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 29, 2022 |
| Grant date | Jul 29, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 29, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/30
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
One aspect of the instant application can provide a system and method for balancing load among multiple network sockets established between a local node and a remote node. During operation, the system can encapsulate the multiple network sockets to form a local transport-layer virtual socket comprising a write interface and a read interface. The system can receive, at the write interface of the local transport-layer virtual socket, a packet; select, based on a load-balancing policy, a network socket from the multiple network sockets; and forward the packet to a socket-specific incoming queue associated with the selected network socket to allow the packet to be sent to the read interface of a corresponding remote transport-layer virtual socket via the selected network socket.
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