System, method and program product for providing invisibility to a proxy-server
US6792463B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 20, 2000 |
| Grant date | Sep 14, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 28, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/1006
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method is disclosed for providing “invisibility” to the compulsory gateway of an IP network, comprising a clustered proxy-server including an inverse load balancer. When individual servers have to access, transparently, resources available on remote content-servers on behalf of a user, an inverse load balancer keeps track of which individual server is in charge of the user request and steers the response through the cluster to the user.
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