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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1999
Jingsha He, Plano, TX (US);
Tomohiko Taniguchi, San Jose, CA (US);
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
A system and method of load balancing a network having a plurality of client systems and servers. The load balancing system and method distributes requests from the client systems to different servers on a wide area network by selecting the most optimal server for a specific client request. The client request for a server is received from a client system and the destination point of the client request is resolved in part by a load balancing server selector. The client request is sent to a load balancing server based on the resolved destination point and one server out of a subset of the plurality of servers is selected based on a predetermined criteria, such as network traffic congestion or server load, and a conduit to the client system and the selected server for transmission of the client request is provided.