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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Partha P. Dutta, San Jose, CA (US);
Nino Vidovic, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dalibor F. Vrsalovic, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5173 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/5173 ;
Abstract
A system and method for load balancing. A packet is received at a firewall, which implements a rule and refers the packet to a load balancing proxy. The proxy performs a load balancing analysis at the load balancing proxy. Based on the results of the load balancing analysis, the proxy determines a load balancing rule, which is implemented by the firewall. At the end of the session to which the received packet belongs, the load balancing rule is deleted at the firewall.