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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present communications systems and methods may provide the capability for fast and reliable transitioning between the different versions of the service of the multi-node service deployed in the utility computing system. For example, in an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for data traffic distribution may comprise allocating a plurality of data traffic service network addresses to a load balancer service, wherein each data traffic service network address is associated with a different version of the load balancer service, receiving a plurality of data traffic flows, and distributing each data traffic flow to a version of the load balancer service based on a data traffic service network address of each data traffic flow.