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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
May. 19, 1999
Wolfgang Staiger, Wannweil, DE;
Rolf Bauer, Korntal, DE;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method for assigning tasks for processing received from one or several client data processing nodes within a group of at least two server data processing nodes to one of the server data processing nodes, as well as a server data processing system, a client data processing node and a machine-readable storage medium for carrying out this process. A client data processing node that has a task to assign, first selects the server data processing node from the group that is the next server data processing node to be selected based on a predefined cyclical order. If the server data processing node that is selected first denies the processing of the task, the client data processing node randomly selects a different server data processing node for processing the task. Otherwise, the client data processing node assigns the task to the selected server data processing node.