LOAD-BALANCING CLUSTER

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20130173806A1
SERIAL NO

13495085

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A load-balancing cluster includes a switch having ports; and servers connected to at least some of the ports. The servers are each addressable by the same virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address. A first server of the plurality of servers establishing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection with a client computer, and, in response to a resource request received by the first server from the client computer for a particular resource, if the first server does not have a copy of the particular resource it queries one or more peers regarding the particular resource. Based at least in part on responses from the peers, the first server either: obtains the particular resource from a peer; or migrates the TCP connection to a peer; or serves the particular resource to the client request through a second server.

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LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLCBROOMFIELD CO 80021

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fullagar, David Boulder, US 45 2504
Koller, Jeffrey G Oxnard, US 40 1129
Newton, Christopher Westlake Village, US 218 5576
Yevmenkin, Maksim Thousand Oaks, US 25 2197

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