The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1999
Prathima Agrawal, New Providence, NJ (US);
Moncef Elaoud, Madison, WI (US);
Parameswaran Ramanathan, Madison, WI (US);
Cormac John Sreenan, Carrigadrokid, IE;
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method of improving the performance of a server enabled to permit connections to clients to persist for a duration equal to a timer value, such as Web servers utilizing HTTP/1.1. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the server estimates the load on the server and uses the estimate to modify the timer value. The timer value can be chosen to balance the need to increase the throughput as seen by the clients and the server need to service the largest possible number of clients without running out of resources. The timer value can be set to a longer value when the server load is light and a shorter value when the server load is heavy. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the server dynamically selects the largest timer that guarantees that the server does not run out of resources under the current measured load.