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Priority control device

US7437478B2 · kind B2 · utility

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18Claims
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Filing dateSep 3, 2004
Grant dateOct 14, 2008
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Expiry dateJul 14, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L67/61
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

When a client-server system that adopts a Web service featuring dynamic connection among different systems is constructed, an existing priority control device therein disconnects communication with lower priority, at the time of server overload that continues for several hours. Thus, the availability of the system is reduced. A client-server Web service system includes a unit for interpreting communication protocols at a protocol layer 4 used in the system, a unit for receiving requests transmitted from clients to a server, for buffering, a unit for analyzing the protocol type, the destination, and the communication contents of each of the requests, a unit for converting the result of the analysis into a priority, and a unit for transmitting the buffered requests to the server based on the priority and then transmitting to the clients responses from the server.

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