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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1997
Rodney Lance Joffe, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Barry A. Dykes, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Jason Alan Brittain, Fairfield, CA (US);
Victor Joseph Oppleman, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Brian Everett Pettingell, Phoenix, AZ (US);
James Joseph Lippard, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Ian Burke Vandeventer, Tempe, AZ (US);
Brett Dean Watson, Beaverton, OR (US);
Steven Michael Hotz, Marina del Rey, CA (US);
Nils Herbert Mc Carthy, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Other;
Abstract
According to the present invention, a method and system provides the ability to assign requests for data objects made by clients among multiple network servers. The invention provides a distributed computing system and methods to assign user requests to replicated servers contained by the distributed computing system in a manner that attempts to meet the goals of a particular routing policy. Policies may include minimizing the amount of time for the request to be completed.