Steering data communications packets among service applications with server selection modulus values
US8811412B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 15, 2009 |
| Grant date | Aug 19, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 29, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/1001
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Steering data communications packets for transparent, bump-in-the-wire data processing among multiple service applications; the service applications executing on servers organized in groups, each server in a server group executing an instance of a same service application, including selecting an instance of each of the service applications to process a packet; identifying a server selection value for each packet as a single integer value that yields server selection modulus values that identify each instance of each of the service applications to process the packet; and steering, by the switches in dependence upon the server selection modulus values, each packet to each instance of each of the service applications to process the packet.
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