Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sanjay Rama

Eric B Fox

Roshane Silva

Kfir Ami-ad

Gokhan Uluderya

Tyler Furtwangler

Bijul Soni

Requests to a server farm are managed in an application intelligent manner based on server health and client information. A request management (RM) module is configured to make smart routing decisions, based on routing rules that relate the nature of requests to a dynamic topology of a server infrastructure. The RM may use its knowledge of server applications, servers, and clients to deny potentially harmful requests from entering the service, route good requests to the suitable machines, and maintain a history of the decisions and consequences automatic and/or manual optimization.

Application intelligent request management based on server health and client information

Server health and client information are exchanged through headers for request management. Headers in standardized or proprietary protocol communication between servers and a request management module and/or clients and the request management module may be used to exchange server health and client information. The exchanged server health and/or client information may be employed in throttling, routing, and/or load balancing the incoming requests. Rules specified by the client through the header exchange may also be used for throttling, routing, and/or load balancing decisions.

Exchange of server health and client information through headers for request management

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