Load balancing secure sockets layer accelerator
US7853781B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 6, 2001 |
| Grant date | Dec 14, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 25, 2029 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2463/102
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A load balancing SSL acceleration device. The device includes a processor, memory and communications interface. A TCP communications manager capable of interacting with a plurality of client devices and server devices simultaneously is provided, along with a secure communications manager. The apparatus further includes an encryption and decryption engine instructing the processor to encrypt data from a secure communications session and direct it to said second communication session. Still further, the apparatus includes a load balancing engine associating ones of said client devices with ones of said servers for a communications session based on calculated processing loads of each said server. In a further aspect, a method for performing SSL acceleration of data communications between a plurality of customer devices attempting to communicate with an enterprise having a plurality of servers is disclosed.
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