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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1996
Karen E. Kimball, Sacramento, CA (US);
Robert L. Faulk, Jr., Roseville, CA (US);
Robert M. McGuire, Roseville, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Automatic load-balancing provides a decision-making process that includes intelligent automatic detection of when a given load-balancing activation currently would not be beneficial, thereby keeping the user's network from being unnecessarily disturbed when no real benefit would be gained; a process to undo a prior load-balancing that can be activated when users have accidentally selected a feature which could substantially change their network configurations; and an extensive intelligent port-distribution algorithm that improves the network load by moving the right ports to new segments.