F5 Networks, Inc.

Paravirtual Corporation

Clinical Computer Systems Incorporated

Ning Xiang Li

Paul Imre Szabo

David Dean Schmitt

Ross Wheeler

George Verbitsky

Randall I Paul

Caren Busen

Gina Brody

Anne Urmanski

A method and system is directed to routing a flow of packets over a network to multiple traffic management devices. An apparatus receives each packet from a network and forwards the packet to one of a group of traffic management devices. The apparatus also may receive packets from servers for which the traffic management devices are managing communications. When forwarding packets, a traffic management device is selected from the group of traffic management devices by employing a hash of an IP address and port number. The IP address and port number are selected from source or destination information in the packet that has a greater port number. When the traffic management device performs a network address translation, further actions may be performed so that packets that are part of a flow between two network devices are delivered to the same traffic management device.

Method and system for scaling network traffic managers

A system and method of documentation and categorization of medical obstetrics data, such as fetal heart rate characteristics. The automatic categorization of fetal heart rate characteristics into three categories, Category I&#x2014;strongly predictive of normal fetal acid-base balance, Category II&#x2014;not predictive of abnormal fetal acid-base balance and Category III&#x2014;predictive of abnormal fetal acid-base balance.

Automatic categorization of fetal heart rate information

A system, apparatus, and method for managing the flow of data on a network. A plurality of processors are used to implement a virtual queue, for controlling a rate of flow of data on the network. Each of the processors has a member queue, the combination of member queues combining to form the virtual queue. Aspects of the invention use messages to communicate among the processors, to properly control the rate of flow.

Method and apparatus for managing network traffic

Method and apparatus for selective post-compile conversion of data protocol-specific source code elements to restore the intended functionality of the source code without requiring precompilation alteration of the latter. Byte-ordering dependent source code issues may be addressed using the current invention, possibly requiring the alteration, deletion and/or addition of one or more instructions to the post-compile output. Invention may enable portability of software programs from a first processor platform and OS to a second environment such as a second hardware and OS or a simulated, emulated or virtualized environment representing a second hardware architecture, by compiling the software program source code according to the second environment and selectively converting the data protocol specific code elements in the object/executable file, produced by the aforementioned compilation, to restore their intended functionality.

Selective post-compile conversion

A method and system for creating and maintaining an allocation table that associates allocation buckets with corresponding target identifiers. Each target identifier has a corresponding weighting value. The allocation table has a number of allocation buckets, each associated with a target identifier. When one or more weighting values change, one or more buckets are reassigned to different target identifiers. A number of factors are considered in determining whether to delay modification of the allocation table, in order to further reduce disruption. The allocation table may be used to distribute packets among network devices, or more generally, to route packets along paths in a network.

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Ning Xiang Li