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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gregory P. Hassett, Cupertino, CA (US);
Harry Collins, South Orange, NJ (US);
Vibha Dayal, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
PointCast, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ;
Abstract
A server services client requests in an improved manner by a utilizing a combination of sending an id of the last article that has been previously sent to the client, load balancing servers to provide efficient servicing of clients and providing redundant servers so that a failure of any one server does not result in the termination of server services to clients.